Margie by Con Conrad & J. Russel Robinson

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 23 · Sections: 6

Form: A Section → B Section → C Section → D Section → C Section → E 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

• D – A – G – D – A7 – D – Em – A7 – D – A – G – D – A7 – D – Ddim
  I – V – IV – I – V7 – I – ii – V7 – I – V – IV – I – V7 – I – i°

B Section

• Em – B7 – Em – C7 – B7 – E7 – A – D – A7 – A – Bm7 – A
  ii – VI7 – ii – bVII7 – VI7 – II7 – V – I – V7 – V – vi7 – V

C Section 1

• D – Ddim – D – D7 – Daug – G – Gdim – Em7 – B♭7
  I – i° – I – I7 – I+ – IV – iv° – ii7 – bVI7

D Section

• D – Ddim – D – B7 – E7 – Edim – E7 – A7 – F♯m – F♯dim – A7
  I – i° – I – VI7 – II7 – ii° – II7 – V7 – iii – iii° – V7

C Section 2

• D – Ddim – D – D7 – Daug – G – F♯ – Bm – Bdim – F♯7 – D – A7
  I – i° – I – I7 – I+ – IV – III – vi – vi° – III7 – I – V7

E Section

• F
  bIII
• G – D (×2)
  IV – I
• A7
  V7
• D – G (×2)
  I – IV
• B7 – Em – Em7 – E7 – D – Ddim
  VI7 – ii – ii7 – II7 – I – i°
• A7 – A – Bm7 (×2)
  V7 – V – vi7
• A7 – D
  V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• Edim (ii°) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• F (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• B7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Em.
• E7 acts as V/V: it resolves to A.
• F♯ acts as V/vi: it resolves to Bm.

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.