I'll See You in My Dreams by Isham Jones

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 14 · Sections: 5

Form: Lead-in → 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

Lead-in

• Fmaj7 – B♭
  Imaj7 – IV

A Section 1

• B♭m6 – F – Fdim – F6 – D7
  iv6 – I – i° – I6 – VI7

B Section

• G7 – C7 – B♭6
  II7 – V7 – IV6

A Section 2

Same chords as A Section 1.

C Section

• Gm7 – E♭7 – Dm – B♭6 – B♭m6 – C13 – F6
  ii7 – bVII7 – vi – IV6 – iv6 – V13 – I6

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭m6 (iv6) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• E♭7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• G7 acts as V/V: it resolves to C7.

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.