I'm Falling in Love With Someone by Victor Herbert & Rida Johnson Young

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 16 · Sections: 5

Form: Verse → 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

Verse

• A7 – Dm (×2)
  III7 – vi
• B7 – C – D7 – G7 – A7 – Dm – C – G7 – C7 – F – D♭7
  #IV7 – V – VI7 – II7 – III7 – vi – V – II7 – V7 – I – bVI7

A Section 1

• Gm7 – C7 – F – Am – Gm – C7 – F
  ii7 – V7 – I – iii – ii – V7 – I

B Section

• A7 – Dm – C – Am – Dm7 – G7 – Gm – C7 – F – D♭7
  III7 – vi – V – iii – vi7 – II7 – ii – V7 – I – bVI7

A Section 2

• Gm7 – C7 – F – Am – Gm – C7 – Am7 – D7
  ii7 – V7 – I – iii – ii – V7 – iii7 – VI7

C Section

• Gm – B♭m – F – E7 – A7 – D7 – Gm7 – C7 – F
  ii – iv – I – VII7 – III7 – VI7 – ii7 – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭m (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• A7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Dm.
• D7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Gm7.
• 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.