Walkin' My Baby Back Home by Fred E. Ahlert

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 15 · Sections: 8

Form: A Section → A Section → Bridge → A Section ×2 → A Section → Bridge → A 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

• E♭
  I
• E♭6 – E♭maj7 (×2)
  I6 – Imaj7
• E♭6 – F9
  I6 – II9
• Fm7 – B♭7 (×2)
  ii7 – V7
• E♭ – Fm7 – B♭7
  I – ii7 – V7

A Section 2

• E♭
  I
• E♭6 – E♭maj7 (×2)
  I6 – Imaj7
• E♭6 – F9
  I6 – II9
• Fm7 – B♭7 (×2)
  ii7 – V7
• E♭
  I

Bridge 1

• Gm – Gmmaj7 – Gm7 – Gm6 – Cm7 – Cm7/B♭ – Am7 – D7 – Gm – Gmmaj7 – Gm7 – Gm6 – F7 – B♭7
  iii – iiimaj7 – iii7 – iii6 – vi7 – vi⁴₂ – #iv7 – VII7 – iii – iiimaj7 – iii7 – iii6 – II7 – V7

A Section 3

Same chords as A Section 1.

A Section 4

Same chords as A Section 1.

A Section 5

Same chords as A Section 2.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

A Section 6

Same chords as A Section 2.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D7 acts as V/iii: it resolves to Gm.
• F7 acts as V/V: it resolves to B♭7.

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.