Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby) by Aretha Franklin

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 16 · Sections: 7

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Chorus

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). This page shows that transcription 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

Intro

• F9sus4 – B♭maj7 (×2)
  V9sus4 – Imaj7

Verse 1

• F9sus4 – F7 – B♭maj9 – Cm7 – B♭add9/D – E♭maj13 – F7 – B♭maj7 – Cm11 – B♭7/D – E♭ – F7 – B♭/D – Gm7 – G♭ – F9sus4 – F7
  V9sus4 – V7 – Imaj9 – ii7 – Iadd9 (bass D) – IVmaj13 – V7 – Imaj7 – ii11 – I⁶₅ – IV – V7 – I⁶ – vi7 – bVI – V9sus4 – V7

Verse 2

• F9sus4 – F7 – B♭maj9 – Cm7 – B♭add9/D – E♭maj7 – F7 – B♭maj7 – Cm7 – B♭7/D – E♭maj7 – F7 – B♭maj7 – Dm7 – Gm7 – G♭ – F9sus4
  V9sus4 – V7 – Imaj9 – ii7 – Iadd9 (bass D) – IVmaj7 – V7 – Imaj7 – ii7 – I⁶₅ – IVmaj7 – V7 – Imaj7 – iii7 – vi7 – bVI – V9sus4

Chorus 1

• E♭ – F7 – B♭ – Dm7 – Gm7 (×3)
  IV – V7 – I – iii7 – vi7
• G♭ – F9sus4
  bVI – V9sus4

Verse 3

• F9sus4 – F7 – B♭maj7 – Cm7 – B♭/D – E♭maj7 – F7 – B♭maj7 – Cm7 – B♭7/D – E♭maj7 – F7 – B♭maj7 – Dm7 – Gm7 – G♭ – F9sus4
  V9sus4 – V7 – Imaj7 – ii7 – I⁶ – IVmaj7 – V7 – Imaj7 – ii7 – I⁶₅ – IVmaj7 – V7 – Imaj7 – iii7 – vi7 – bVI – V9sus4

Chorus 2

• E♭ – F7 – B♭ – Dm7 – Gm7 (×3)
  IV – V7 – I – iii7 – vi7
• G♭ – F9sus4 (×3)
  bVI – V9sus4

Chorus 3

• E♭ – F7 – B♭ – Dm7 – Gm7 (×2)
  IV – V7 – I – iii7 – vi7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G♭ (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ minor.
• B♭7/D acts as V/IV: it resolves to E♭.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1042, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.