I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl by Harry Von Tilzer

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 25 · Sections: 7

Form: A Section → B Section → C Section → D Section → E Section → F Section → G 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

• C – G7 – Cdim – C – Cdim – G7 – Cdim – C – Gdim – G7
  I – V7 – i° – I – i° – V7 – i° – I – v° – V7

B Section

• C – G7 – Cdim – C – Cm
  I – V7 – i° – I – i
• G – D7 (×2)
  V – II7
• G – E – E7 – Am – D7 – G
  V – III – III7 – vi – II7 – V

C Section

• G7 – B♭7 – Dm – B♭7 – G7 – Dm7 – C♯dim – G7 – C – Bdim – C7 – F – D7♭5
  V7 – bVII7 – ii – bVII7 – V7 – ii7 – #i° – V7 – I – vii° – I7 – IV – II7♭5

D Section

• C/G – Am7 – D7 – G7 – C – G7 – C7 – F – Cdim – C – A7
  I⁶₄ – vi7 – II7 – V7 – I – V7 – I7 – IV – i° – I – VI7

E Section

• D7 – D9 – G7 – Dm – G7 – Gaug7 – C – C/G – C – G7 – Dm
  II7 – II9 – V7 – ii – V7 – V+7 – I – I⁶₄ – I – V7 – ii

F Section

• Am – F7 – E7 – G7 – Ddim – C – C7 – F – D7
  vi – IV7 – III7 – V7 – ii° – I – I7 – IV – II7

G Section

• C – D7 – G7 – C
  I – II7 – V7 – I
• G7 – Ddim (×2)
  V7 – ii°

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Cm (i) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• B♭7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Gaug7 (V+7) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Ddim (ii°) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• D7 acts as V/V: it resolves to G.
• E7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Am.
• C7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to F.
• D9 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.