This Funny World by Richard Rodgers

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 30 · 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

• G – D7 – G – C – Fmaj7 – F7 – G – D7 – Fm6 – E7 – Dm – Emaj7(no3) – E
  I – V7 – I – IV – bVIImaj7 – bVII7 – I – V7 – bvii6 – VI7 – v – VImaj7(no3) – VI

B Section 1

• Am9 – Am – D7 – G – Gsus4 – G – Em – Em7 – F♯7 – Bm7 – E7 – A7 – Dm7
  ii9 – ii – V7 – I – Isus4 – I – vi – vi7 – VII7 – iii7 – VI7 – II7 – v7

C Section 1

• G – D7 – G – C – D7 – D7♭9 – G – F – G7 – C – C/B – C/A – C/G
  I – V7 – I – IV – V7 – V7b9 – I – bVII – I7 – IV – IV (bass B) – IV (bass A) – IV⁶₄

D Section 1

• A7 – Dm7 – G7 – C6 – Cm6 – G – C – D7 – G – A7♭9 – D7 – E♭7 – Dmaj7(no3) – D7
  II7 – v7 – I7 – IV6 – iv6 – I – IV – V7 – I – II7b9 – V7 – bVI7 – Vmaj7(no3) – 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 – Dm7 – G7 – C6 – Cm6 – G – C – D7 – G
  II7 – v7 – I7 – IV6 – iv6 – I – IV – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• Dm (v) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• Dm7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• D7♭9 (V7b9) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• F (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• Cm6 (iv6) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• F♯7 acts as V/iii: it resolves to Bm7.
• G7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to C.
• A7♭9 acts as V/V: it resolves to D7.

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.
• 2 chords were simplified to the closest symbol our player supports (for example, an unusual added tone dropped).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.