When You Come to the End of the Day by Gus Kahn & Frank Westphal

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 16 · 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

• B♭ – D7 – E♭ – G7/D – Cm – Cm7/E♭ – F7
  I – III7 – IV – VI⁴₃ – ii – ii⁶₅ – V7

B Section

• F7/E♭ – B♭/D – D♭dim – F7/C – B♭ – Gm7 – C7 – Cm7♭5
  V⁴₂ – I⁶ – biii° – V⁴₃ – I – vi7 – II7 – iiø7

A Section 2

• F7 – B♭ – D7 – E♭ – G7/D – Cm – Cm7/E♭ – F7
  V7 – I – III7 – IV – VI⁴₃ – ii – ii⁶₅ – V7

C Section

• F7/E♭ – B♭/D – D♭dim – F7/C – Bdim – G7 – C7 – F7 – B♭
  V⁴₂ – I⁶ – biii° – V⁴₃ – #i° – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Cm7♭5 (iiø7) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ minor.
• G7/D acts as V/ii: it resolves to Cm.
• C7 acts as V/V: it resolves to F7.

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.