Swingin' Down the Lane by Isham Jones

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 21 · 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

• F – Faug – F – G7 – G9 – C7 – C7♭5 – Gm7 – C7 – F – Caug
  I – I+ – I – II7 – II9 – V7 – V7♭5 – ii7 – V7 – I – V+

B Section

• F – D – C – Daug7 – D7 – G9 – G – D7 – G7 – C9
  I – VI – V – VI+7 – VI7 – II9 – II – VI7 – II7 – V9

A Section 2

Same chords as A Section 1.

C Section

• F – Cm6 – D7 – Cm6 – Daug – A – A7 – Dm – Gm – B♭m6 – C7 – F
  I – v6 – VI7 – v6 – VI+ – III – III7 – vi – ii – iv6 – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Caug (V+) 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 C9.
• G9 acts as V/V: it resolves to C7.
• A7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Dm.

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.