Who's Sorry Now by Ted Snyder

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 23 · Sections: 12

Form: A Section → B Section → C Section → D Section → E Section → F Section → A Section → B Section → C Section → D Section → E Section → F 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

• C7 – F7 – B♭ – B♭dim – Fmaj7(no3) – F7 – Faug – B♭6
  II7 – V7 – I – i° – Vmaj7(no3) – V7 – V+ – I6

B Section 1

• C7 – F7 – B♭/D – B♭m/D♭ – F/C – C7 – Cdim7 – C7 – F7 – Cm7
  II7 – V7 – I⁶ – i⁶ – V⁶₄ – II7 – ii°7 – II7 – V7 – ii7

C Section 1

• F7 – E♭/F – F7 – B♭ – D7 – Gaug – G7 – D7 – G7 – C7
  V7 – IV (bass F) – V7 – I – III7 – VI+ – VI7 – III7 – VI7 – II7

D Section 1

• F7 – B♭ – Bdim – F – C7 – F7
  V7 – I – #i° – V – II7 – V7

E Section 1

• Cm7 – F7 – B♭ – D7 – Gaug7 – G7 – Gdim – G7 – Gaug – G7 – Cm
  ii7 – V7 – I – III7 – VI+7 – VI7 – vi° – VI7 – VI+ – VI7 – ii

F Section 1

• G7 – Cm – Cm7♭5 – B♭ – G7 – C7 – Cm7♭5 – F7 – B♭ – Bdim7
  VI7 – ii – iiø7 – I – VI7 – II7 – iiø7 – V7 – I – #i°7

A Section 2

• Cm7 – F7 – B♭ – C7 – F7 – B♭ – B♭dim – Fmaj7(no3) – F7 – Faug – B♭6
  ii7 – V7 – I – II7 – V7 – I – i° – Vmaj7(no3) – V7 – V+ – I6

B Section 2

Same chords as B Section 1.

C Section 2

Same chords as C Section 1.

D Section 2

Same chords as D Section 1.

E Section 2

Same chords as E Section 1.

F Section 2

• G7 – Cm – Cm7♭5 – B♭ – G7 – C7 – Cm7♭5 – F7 – B♭
  VI7 – ii – iiø7 – I – VI7 – II7 – iiø7 – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Faug (V+) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ minor.
• B♭m/D♭ (i⁶) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ minor.
• Cm7♭5 (iiø7) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ minor.
• C7 acts as V/V: it resolves to F7.
• G7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Cm.

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.
• 1 chord was 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.