My Baby Just Cares for Me by Walter Donaldson

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 25 · Sections: 4

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

• Gmaj7 – Daug7 (×4)
  Imaj7 – V+7
• G – C9 – Bm – B♭dim7 – Am7 – Eaug7 – Am7
  I – IV9 – iii – biii°7 – ii7 – VI+7 – ii7

B Section

• F♯m7♭5 – Bmaj7(no3) – B7 – Em – A7 – A7♭5 – A9 – D7
  viiø7 – IIImaj7(no3) – III7 – vi – II7 – II7♭5 – II9 – V7

C Section

• G – Daug7 – Gmaj7 – Daug7 (×2)
  I – V+7 – Imaj7 – V+7
• E7♭9 – B/E – E7 – Am – F/A – Am6
  VI7b9 – III (bass E) – VI7 – ii – bVII⁶ – ii6

D Section

• Cmaj7 – F♯7 – Bm – E7 – Eaug7 – Am7 – A7 – D7 – G – G♯dim7
  IVmaj7 – VII7 – iii – VI7 – VI+7 – ii7 – II7 – V7 – I – #i°7
• Am7 – Daug7 (×2)
  ii7 – V+7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Daug7 (V+7) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• F/A (bVII⁶) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• B7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Em.
• A7 acts as V/V: it resolves to D7.
• A9 acts as V/V: it resolves to D7.
• E7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Am.
• F♯7 acts as V/iii: 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.
• 2 chords were simplified to the closest symbol our player supports (for example, an unusual added tone dropped).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.