My Future Just Passed by George Marion Jr. & Richard Whiting

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 4

Form: 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♭maj7 – Cm7 – Fm7 – B♭7 (×2)
  Imaj7 – vi7 – ii7 – V7
• E♭maj7 – G7 – C7 – D♭7 – E♭maj7 – B♭7 – E♭maj7 – Fm7 – B♭7
  Imaj7 – III7 – VI7 – bVII7 – Imaj7 – V7 – Imaj7 – ii7 – V7

A Section 2

• E♭maj7 – Cm7 – Fm7 – B♭7 (×2)
  Imaj7 – vi7 – ii7 – V7
• E♭maj7 – G7 – C7 – D♭7 – E♭maj7 – B♭7 – E♭maj7 – Adim7 – D7
  Imaj7 – III7 – VI7 – bVII7 – Imaj7 – V7 – Imaj7 – #iv°7 – VII7

Bridge

• Gmaj7 – Adim7 – D7 – Gm7 – Am7 – D7 – Gmaj7
  IIImaj7 – #iv°7 – VII7 – iii7 – #iv7 – VII7 – IIImaj7
• Am7 – D7 (×2)
  #iv7 – VII7
• Gmaj7 – Fm7 – B♭7
  IIImaj7 – ii7 – V7

A Section 3

• E♭maj7 – Cm7 – Fm7 – B♭7 (×2)
  Imaj7 – vi7 – ii7 – V7
• E♭maj7 – G7 – C7 – F7 – E♭maj7 – B♭7 – E♭maj7
  Imaj7 – III7 – VI7 – II7 – Imaj7 – V7 – Imaj7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D♭7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• D7 acts as V/iii: it resolves to Gm7.

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.