Rock-A-Bye Your Baby (With a Dixie Melody) by Jean Schwartz

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 24 · Sections: 8

Form: A Section → B Section → C Section → D Section → 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 1

• C – G7 – Cdim – C – G6 – Cdim – Dm7 – G7 – G9 – Gdim – G9
  I – V7 – i° – I – V6 – i° – ii7 – V7 – V9 – v° – V9
• Dm7 – G7 (×2)
  ii7 – V7
• F – C – Am – D9 – G7
  IV – I – vi – II9 – V7

B Section 1

• Dm – Aaug – Dm7 – G9 – C – Em7 – A9 – G – Am – G – Am7 – D – G7 – Dm7 – G7 – G9 – D9 – G7
  ii – VI+ – ii7 – V9 – I – iii7 – VI9 – V – vi – V – vi7 – II – V7 – ii7 – V7 – V9 – II9 – V7

C Section 1

• C – G7 – Cdim – C – G6 – Cdim – Dm7 – G – G9 – Gdim – G9
  I – V7 – i° – I – V6 – i° – ii7 – V – V9 – v° – V9
• Dm7 – G7 (×2)
  ii7 – V7
• F7 – E7 – D – Gm – E7
  IV7 – III7 – II – v – III7

D Section 1

• A7 – C♯dim – A7 – Aaug – A7 – D7 – Cdim – C – G7 – Cdim – C – E7 – Am – D9 – D7 – Fm – G7 – C – Cdim – Dm7 – G7
  VI7 – #i° – VI7 – VI+ – VI7 – II7 – i° – I – V7 – i° – I – III7 – vi – II9 – II7 – iv – V7 – I – i° – ii7 – V7

A Section 2

Same chords as A Section 1.

B Section 2

Same chords as B Section 1.

C Section 2

Same chords as C Section 1.

D Section 2

• A7 – C♯dim – A7 – Aaug – A7 – D7 – Cdim – C – G7 – Cdim – C – E7 – Am – D9 – D7 – Fm – G7 – C
  VI7 – #i° – VI7 – VI+ – VI7 – II7 – i° – I – V7 – i° – I – III7 – vi – II9 – II7 – iv – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Gm (v) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Fm (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• D9 acts as V/V: it resolves to G7.
• D acts as V/V: it resolves to G7.
• E7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Am.

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.