My Melancholy Baby by Ernie Burnett

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 26 · Sections: 6

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

• E♭ – B♭aug (×2)
  I – V+
• E♭ – E♭/G – C♭7/G♭ – Fm7/B♭
  I – I⁶ – bVI⁴₃ – ii7 (bass B♭)
• Fm – Edim/C (×2)
  ii – #i° (bass C)
• F7 – Fm7/B♭ – B♭7
  II7 – ii7 (bass B♭) – V7

B Section

• E♭ – B♭aug (×2)
  I – V+
• E♭ – E♭/G – C♭7/G♭ – Fm7/B♭ – F7 – B♭ – G7 – C7 – F7 – Fm7 – Fm7♭5 – B♭7
  I – I⁶ – bVI⁴₃ – ii7 (bass B♭) – II7 – V – III7 – VI7 – II7 – ii7 – iiø7 – V7

C Section 1

• E♭ – Caug – C7 – Fm – Caug7 – Fm7 – C7 – Fm7/B♭ – B♭7 – F9/C – B♭7 – E♭ – F7 – B♭ – Cm – C♯dim7 – B♭7/D
  I – VI+ – VI7 – ii – VI+7 – ii7 – VI7 – ii7 (bass B♭) – V7 – II9 (bass C) – V7 – I – II7 – V – vi – #vi°7 – V⁶₅

D Section 1

• E♭ – Gm7♭5 – D♭7 – C7 – Fm7 – Caug7 – Fm7 – C7 – Fm7 – F♯dim7 – Gm7 – C7 – Fm – B♭7 – E♭ – B♭aug7
  I – iiiø7 – bVII7 – VI7 – ii7 – VI+7 – ii7 – VI7 – ii7 – #ii°7 – iii7 – VI7 – ii – V7 – I – V+7

C Section 2

Same chords as C Section 1.

D Section 2

• E♭ – Gm7♭5 – D♭7 – C7 – Fm7 – Caug7 – Fm7 – C7 – Fm7 – F♯dim7 – Gm7 – C7 – Fm – B♭7 – E♭ – A♭7 – E♭
  I – iiiø7 – bVII7 – VI7 – ii7 – VI+7 – ii7 – VI7 – ii7 – #ii°7 – iii7 – VI7 – ii – V7 – I – IV7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭aug (V+) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• Fm7♭5 (iiø7) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• D♭7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• B♭aug7 (V+7) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• F7 acts as V/V: it resolves to B♭.
• C7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Fm.
• F9/C acts as V/V: it resolves to B♭7.

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.