Second Hand Rose by James F. Hanley

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 17 · Sections: 5

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

• F – G7 – C7 – F
  I – II7 – V7 – I

B Section

• F♯dim7 – Gm7 – C7 – F6
  #i°7 – ii7 – V7 – I6

C Section

• F – G7 – Cm7 – F7 – Cm7 – Faug7 – B♭6
  I – II7 – v7 – I7 – v7 – I+7 – IV6

D Section

• Gm – Cm6
  ii – v6
• Gm – C6 (×2)
  ii – V6
• Gm – C7♭9
  ii – V7b9
• F – B♭m6 (×3)
  I – iv6
• G7
  II7

E Section

• F – G7 – Gm7 – C9 – F – Bdim7 – C7
  I – II7 – ii7 – V9 – I – #iv°7 – V7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Cm7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• C7♭9 (V7b9) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• B♭m6 (iv6) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• G7 acts as V/V: it resolves to C7.

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.