I've Told Eve'ry Little Star by Jerome Kern

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 33 · Sections: 4

Form: A Section → A Section → Bridge → A Section

Where these chords come from: a chord chart of this song written by a musician and shared on the iReal Pro forums, archived in the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). It's one musician's reading of the song, not a transcription checked against the recording. This page shows that chart 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 1

• F6 – Dm7 – Gm7 – C7 – Cm7 – F7 – B♭maj7 – E♭7 – Fmaj7 – Dm7 – Gm7 – C7 – F6 – Dm7 – Gm7 – C7
  I6 – vi7 – ii7 – V7 – v7 – I7 – IVmaj7 – bVII7 – Imaj7 – vi7 – ii7 – V7 – I6 – vi7 – ii7 – V7

A Section 2

• F6 – Dm7 – Gm7 – C7 – Cm7 – F7 – B♭maj7 – E♭7 – Fmaj7 – Dm7 – Gm7 – C7 – F6 – Dm7 – G7
  I6 – vi7 – ii7 – V7 – v7 – I7 – IVmaj7 – bVII7 – Imaj7 – vi7 – ii7 – V7 – I6 – vi7 – II7

Bridge

• Cmaj7 – Cmaj7/B – Cmaj7/A – Cmaj7/G – Dm7 – Dm7/F – G7 – G7/B – Cmaj7 – Cmaj7/D – Cmaj7/E – Cmaj7/G – Cdim7 – Cdim7/F♯ – Cdim7/E♭ – Cdim7/C – Bm7♭5 – Bm7♭5/D – E7♭9 – E7♭9/G♯ – Am – Am/C – Am7 – Am7/E – Dm7 – Dm7/A – G7 – G7/B – Gm7 – Gm7/D – C7 – C7/E
  Vmaj7 – Vmaj⁴₂ – Vmaj7 (bass A) – Vmaj⁴₃ – vi7 – vi⁶₅ – II7 – II⁶₅ – Vmaj7 – Vmaj7 (bass D) – Vmaj⁶₅ – Vmaj⁴₃ – v°7 – v°⁴₃ – v°⁶₅ – v°7 – #ivø7 – #ivø⁶₅ – VII7b9 – VII7b9 (bass G♯) – iii – iii⁶ – iii7 – iii⁴₃ – vi7 – vi⁴₃ – II7 – II⁶₅ – ii7 – ii⁴₃ – V7 – V⁶₅

A Section 3

• F6 – Dm7 – Gm7 – C7 – Cm7 – F7 – B♭maj7 – E♭7 – Fmaj7 – Dm7
  I6 – vi7 – ii7 – V7 – v7 – I7 – IVmaj7 – bVII7 – Imaj7 – vi7
• Gm7 – C7 – F6 (×2)
  ii7 – V7 – I6

Chord vocabulary

Chord	Roman numeral	Role	Heard in
F6	I6	Home chord (tonic)	A Section
Dm7	vi7	In the key	A Section, Bridge
Gm7	ii7	In the key	A Section, Bridge
C7	V7	In the key	A Section, Bridge
Cm7	v7	Borrowed from F minor	A Section
F7	I7	Secondary dominant (V/IV)	A Section
B♭maj7	IVmaj7	In the key	A Section
E♭7	bVII7	Borrowed from F minor	A Section
Fmaj7	Imaj7	Home chord (tonic)	A Section
G7	II7	Outside the key (chromatic)	A Section, Bridge
Cmaj7	Vmaj7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
Cmaj7/B	Vmaj⁴₂	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
Cmaj7/A	Vmaj7 (bass A)	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
Cmaj7/G	Vmaj⁴₃	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
Dm7/F	vi⁶₅	In the key	Bridge
G7/B	II⁶₅	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
Cmaj7/D	Vmaj7 (bass D)	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
Cmaj7/E	Vmaj⁶₅	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
Cdim7	v°7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
Cdim7/F♯	v°⁴₃	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
Cdim7/E♭	v°⁶₅	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
Cdim7/C	v°7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
Bm7♭5	#ivø7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
Bm7♭5/D	#ivø⁶₅	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
E7♭9	VII7b9	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
E7♭9/G♯	VII7b9 (bass G♯)	Secondary dominant (V/iii)	Bridge
Am	iii	In the key	Bridge
Am/C	iii⁶	In the key	Bridge
Am7	iii7	In the key	Bridge
Am7/E	iii⁴₃	In the key	Bridge
Dm7/A	vi⁴₃	In the key	Bridge
Gm7/D	ii⁴₃	In the key	Bridge
C7/E	V⁶₅	In the key	Bridge

Harmonic highlights

• Cm7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• E♭7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• F7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to B♭maj7.
• E7♭9/G♯ acts as V/iii: it resolves to Am.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). Community chord chart “I've Told Eve'ry Little Star (K's rev)” (credited “Kern Jerome”, style Medium Swing) from the forum file linked here, CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo. Artist as credited on the chart.
• Section names: from the chart's own markings: section names written on the chart (Intro, Verse, Chorus…) are kept, and rehearsal letters are shown as “A Section”, “B Section” and so on (the B of an AABA song is called the Bridge).
• Cross-check: the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). Community chord chart “I've Told Eve'ry Little Star” (credited “Kern Jerome”, style Medium Swing) from the forum file linked here, CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo. Artist as credited on the chart. A separately posted chart of the same song; its chords match this page's closely when both are read in the same key (similarity 69%).
• Chord charts are often written in a key that suits a particular singer or band, so this may not be the key of the original recording.
• Verified: two community charts of this song, posted in different forum threads, agree on its harmony. They're still charts, not transcriptions checked against the recording.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.