I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You) by Fred E. Ahlert

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 28 · Sections: 8

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

• Dm7 – G9 – Cmaj7 – C6 – Dm7 – G9 – G9(no5) – Cmaj7 – C6 – F♯m7♭5 – B7 – Em – Em7 – Am7 – D9 – Dm7 – G7♭9
  ii7 – V9 – Imaj7 – I6 – ii7 – V9 – V9(no5) – Imaj7 – I6 – #ivø7 – VII7 – iii – iii7 – vi7 – II9 – ii7 – V7b9

B Section

• Cmaj7 – Dm7 – G7♭9 – Cmaj7 – Bm7 – E7 – Eaug7 – F6 – A7 – Dm7 – D9
  Imaj7 – ii7 – V7b9 – Imaj7 – vii7 – III7 – III+7 – IV6 – VI7 – ii7 – II9

C Section

• G7 – E♭dim – G7/D – Gaug7 – Cmaj7 – C♯dim7 – Dm7 – G7 – Cmaj7 – Dm7 – G7♭9
  V7 – biii° – V⁴₃ – V+7 – Imaj7 – #i°7 – ii7 – V7 – Imaj7 – ii7 – V7b9

D Section

• Cmaj7 – Bm7 – E7 – Eaug7 – F6 – A7♭9 – Dm7 – Fm6 – Am – A9 – Aaug7
  Imaj7 – vii7 – III7 – III+7 – IV6 – VI7b9 – ii7 – iv6 – vi – VI9 – VI+7

E Section

• Dm7 – G7♭9 – C – Dm7 – G7 – Cmaj7 – Dm7 – G7♭9 – Cmaj7 – Bm7 – E7 – Eaug7
  ii7 – V7b9 – I – ii7 – V7 – Imaj7 – ii7 – V7b9 – Imaj7 – vii7 – III7 – III+7

F Section

• F6 – A7 – Dm7 – D9 – G7 – E♭dim – G7/D – Gaug7
  IV6 – VI7 – ii7 – II9 – V7 – biii° – V⁴₃ – V+7

G Section

• Cmaj7 – C♯dim7 – Dm7 – G7 – Cmaj7 – Dm7 – G7♭9 – Cmaj7 – Bm7 – E7 – Eaug7 – F6 – A7♭9
  Imaj7 – #i°7 – ii7 – V7 – Imaj7 – ii7 – V7b9 – Imaj7 – vii7 – III7 – III+7 – IV6 – VI7b9

H Section

• Dm7 – Fm6 – Am – A9 – Aaug7 – Dm7 – G7♭9 – Dm7 – G7 – C
  ii7 – iv6 – vi – VI9 – VI+7 – ii7 – V7b9 – ii7 – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G7♭9 (V7b9) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Gaug7 (V+7) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Fm6 (iv6) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• B7 acts as V/iii: it resolves to Em.
• D9 acts as V/V: it resolves to G7.
• A7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Dm7.
• A7♭9 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Dm7.

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.
• 1 chord was simplified to the closest symbol our player supports (for example, an unusual added tone dropped).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.