Here in My Arms by Richard Rodgers

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 8

Form: A Section → A Section → Bridge → A Section → A Section → A Section → Bridge → A Section

Where these chords come from: a lead sheet of this public-domain song, contributed by a musician to the Wikifonia archive and preserved in the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). It describes the song as written, not any particular recording. This page shows that lead sheet as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

A Section 1

• F – B♭m – F6 – C7 – F – B♭6 – F – B♭
  I – iv – I6 – V7 – I – IV6 – I – IV

A Section 2

• F – B♭m – F6 – C7 – F – B♭6 – F
  I – iv – I6 – V7 – I – IV6 – I

Bridge 1

• B♭ – G7 – B♭ – F – Fmaj7 – Dm7 – G7 – Gm7 – Caug7
  IV – II7 – IV – I – Imaj7 – vi7 – II7 – ii7 – V+7

A Section 3

• F – B♭m – F6 – C7 – F – B♭6 – F – C7
  I – iv – I6 – V7 – I – IV6 – I – V7

A Section 4

Same chords as A Section 1.

A Section 5

Same chords as A Section 2.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

A Section 6

Same chords as A Section 2.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭m (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• Caug7 (V+7) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). Community-contributed lead sheet (chord symbols over the melody) from the Wikifonia archive, MIT licence. Title and songwriter credit as written on the sheet.
• Section names: detected by code from repeated 8-, 12- and 16-bar phrases (letters such as A and B mark different phrases; a phrase that comes back keeps its letter). Lead sheets rarely print section names.
• Not verified: only one lead sheet of this song is available, so it hasn't been cross-checked.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.