My Blue Heaven by Walter Donaldson

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 8

Form: A Section → A Section → Bridge → A Section → A Section → A Section → Bridge → A 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 1

• E♭ – C7 – F7 – B♭7 – E♭
  I – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I

A Section 2

• Fm7 – B♭7 – E♭ – C7 – F7 – B♭7 – E♭
  ii7 – V7 – I – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I

Bridge 1

• B♭m7 – E♭7 – A♭ – C7 – Fm – B♭7 – E♭ – Edim7
  v7 – I7 – IV – VI7 – ii – V7 – I – #i°7

A Section 3

• Fm7 – B♭7 – E♭ – C7 – F7 – B♭7 – E♭ – A♭
  ii7 – V7 – I – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I – IV

A Section 4

• E♭ – B♭7 – E♭ – C7 – F7 – B♭7 – E♭
  I – V7 – I – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I

A Section 5

Same chords as A Section 2.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

A Section 6

• Fm7 – B♭7 – E♭ – C7 – F7 – B♭7 – E♭ – A♭ – E♭ – B♭7
  ii7 – V7 – I – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I – IV – I – V7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭m7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• C7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Fm.
• F7 acts as V/V: it resolves to B♭7.
• E♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to A♭.

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.