You Took Advantage of Me by Richard Rodgers

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 16 · Sections: 8

Form: A Section → A Section → Bridge → A Section → A Section → 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♭ – Edim7 – B♭7 – E♭ – F♯dim7 – Fm7 – B♭7 – E♭ – E♭7 – A♭ – A♭m6 – E♭ – E♭aug – B♭7 – E♭ – B7 – B♭7
  I – #i°7 – V7 – I – #ii°7 – ii7 – V7 – I – I7 – IV – iv6 – I – I+ – V7 – I – #V7 – V7

A Section 2

• E♭ – Edim7 – B♭7 – E♭ – F♯dim7 – Fm7 – B♭7 – E♭ – E♭7 – A♭ – A♭m6 – E♭ – E♭aug – B♭7 – E♭
  I – #i°7 – V7 – I – #ii°7 – ii7 – V7 – I – I7 – IV – iv6 – I – I+ – V7 – I

Bridge 1

• Cm – D7 – G7 – C7 – F7 – B♭7 – E♭ – Cm – D7 – G7 – C7 – F7 – B♭7 – B♭ – Fm7 – B♭7
  vi – VII7 – III7 – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I – vi – VII7 – III7 – VI7 – II7 – V7 – V – ii7 – V7

A Section 3

• E♭ – Edim7 – B♭7 – E♭ – F♯dim7 – Fm7 – B♭7 – E♭ – E♭7 – A♭ – A♭m6 – E♭ – E♭aug – B♭7 – E♭ – Fm7 – B♭7
  I – #i°7 – V7 – I – #ii°7 – ii7 – V7 – I – I7 – IV – iv6 – I – I+ – V7 – I – ii7 – V7

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

• A♭m6 (iv6) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• E♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to A♭.
• 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.