Time on My Hands by Mack Gordon & Vincent Youmans

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 16 · Sections: 4

Form: A Section → A Section → B 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 – Fmaj7 – E7 – Gm7 – B♭m6 – Gm7 – C7♭9
  I – Imaj7 – VII7 – ii7 – iv6 – ii7 – V7b9

A Section 2

• F – Fmaj7 – E7 – Gm7 – B♭7 – A7 – Aaug7 – A7
  I – Imaj7 – VII7 – ii7 – IV7 – III7 – III+7 – III7

B Section

• Daug7 – D7 – G9 – Gm7 – C9 – F – Dm7 – G7 – Gm7 – C9 – Caug7 – C7♭9
  VI+7 – VI7 – II9 – ii7 – V9 – I – vi7 – II7 – ii7 – V9 – V+7 – V7b9

C Section

• F – Fmaj7 – F – Daug7 – D7 – G9 – Gm7 – C7♭9 – F – Dm7
  I – Imaj7 – I – VI+7 – VI7 – II9 – ii7 – V7b9 – I – vi7
• G7 – Caug7 – C7♭9 (×2)
  II7 – V+7 – V7b9
• Fmaj7
  Imaj7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭m6 (iv6) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• C7♭9 (V7b9) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• Caug7 (V+7) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.

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.