I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles by John William Kellette

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 11

Form: Lead-in → A Section → B Section → C Section → D Section → E Section → C Section → C Section → D Section → E 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

• B♭ – F7
  I – V7

A Section

• Cm7 – E♭ – B♭ – F7 – Cm – B♭
  ii7 – IV – I – V7 – ii – I

B Section

• D7 – A7 – D7 – Gm – Gm7 – C7 – F7
  III7 – VII7 – III7 – vi – vi7 – II7 – V7

C Section 1

• B♭ – F7 – B♭ – E♭ – B♭
  I – V7 – I – IV – I

D Section 1

• E♭ – B♭ (×2)
  IV – I
• C7 – F7
  II7 – V7

E Section 1

• B♭ – C – B♭ – D7 – Gm – E♭7 – D
  I – II – I – III7 – vi – IV7 – III

C Section 2

• F7 – B♭ (×2)
  V7 – I
• C7 – F7 – B♭
  II7 – V7 – I

C Section 3

Same chords as C Section 1.

D Section 2

Same chords as D Section 1.

E Section 2

Same chords as E Section 1.

C Section 4

Same chords as C Section 2.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Gm.
• C7 acts as V/V: it resolves to F7.

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.