I Know That You Know by Vincent Youmans

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 18 · Sections: 4

Form: A Section → B Section → A 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 1

• B7 – C7 – C♯7 – D7 – G7 – Am7 – B7 – G – Am7 – Faug
  VII7 – I7 – #I7 – II7 – V7 – vi7 – VII7 – V – vi7 – IV+

B Section

• Am7 – D7 – G7 – C – Fm – C – G7 – G
  vi7 – II7 – V7 – I – iv – I – V7 – V

A Section 2

• Am – Cm6 – D7 – G7 – Am7 – B7 – Gm6 – A7 – D7
  vi – i6 – II7 – V7 – vi7 – VII7 – v6 – VI7 – II7

C Section

• Cdim – B – Am7 – Faug – A7 – D7 – Fm – G7 – C
  i° – VII – vi7 – IV+ – VI7 – II7 – iv – V7 – I
• F – G7 (×2)
  IV – V7
• C – Caug – Fm – C
  I – I+ – iv – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Fm (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• D7 acts as V/V: it resolves to G7.

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.