Honeysuckle Rose by Thomas Waller

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 3

Form: A Section → B Section → C 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

• Gm7 – C7 (×4)
  ii7 – V7
• F – Dm7 – Gm7 – C7 – F6 – Am7
  I – vi7 – ii7 – V7 – I6 – iii7

B Section

• Am7 – F7 – B♭6 – G7
  iii7 – I7 – IV6 – II7

C Section

• C11 – C7♯9 – Gm7 – C7 – A♭m7 – D♭7
  V11 – V7#9 – ii7 – V7 – biii7 – bVI7
• Gm7 – C7 (×2)
  ii7 – V7
• F – Dm7 – Gm7 – C7 – F6
  I – vi7 – ii7 – V7 – I6

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C7♯9 (V7#9) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• F7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to B♭6.

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.