Sleepy Time Gal by Ange Lorenzo & Raymond B. Egan

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 23 · Sections: 4

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

• G – E♭7 – D7 – Gmaj7 – G – F♯7 – F7
  I – bVI7 – V7 – Imaj7 – I – VII7 – bVII7

B Section

• E7 – C♯m – Adim – E7 – A9
  VI7 – #iv – ii° – VI7 – II9
• A7 – F♯m (×2)
  II7 – vii
• D7 – Daug
  V7 – V+

A Section 2

• G – E♭7 – D7 – B7 – Em – Cm6 – Gm
  I – bVI7 – V7 – III7 – vi – iv6 – i

C Section

• A7 – G – Dm6 – E7 – Dm – E7 – Am – Cm6 – D7 – G7 – Gdim
  II7 – I – v6 – VI7 – v – VI7 – ii – iv6 – V7 – I7 – i°
• D7 – C (×2)
  V7 – IV
• D7
  V7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• Adim (ii°) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• Daug (V+) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• Cm6 (iv6) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• Gm (i) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• Dm (v) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• E7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Am.
• B7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Em.

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.