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I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm chords & key

Irving Berlin

Key
E♭ major
Form
AABA
Bars
56
Groove
Medium swing
Time signature
4/4

“I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm” is a jazz standard by Irving Berlin. It is usually played in E♭ major as a medium swing, and the 56-bar AABA form has 4 sections. Harmonically it contains 5 major ii–V–I cadences and 6 minor ii–V–i, uses 13 different chords and moves between the key centres E♭ major, F minor and G minor. In this atlas it appears on 14 album tracks.

Chord changes

Showing in: Concert (C) — E♭ major

A
E♭6
G♭dim7
Fm7
B♭7
Am7♭5
D7♭9
Am7♭5
D7♭9D7♭9/G♭
Fm7
B♭7
Fm7
B♭7
Gm7C7♭9
Fm7B♭7
1.
E♭6Cm7
Fm7B♭7
2.
E♭6
Am7♭5D7♭9
B
Gm7
Am7♭5D7♭13
Gm7
C7
Fm7
G7C7
Fm7
B♭7
A
E♭6
G♭dim7
Fm7
B♭7
Am7♭5
D7♭9
Am7♭5
D7♭9D7♭9/G♭
Fm7
B♭7
Fm7
B♭7
Gm7C7♭9
Fm7B♭7
E♭6Cm7
Fm7B♭7

Changes as commonly played (concert pitch). Your band's version may differ.

Harmonic analysis

5Major ii–V–I
6Minor ii–V–i
27ii–V moves
3Tritone substitutions
1Dominant chains
13Different chords

Most used chords

  • Fm7×16
  • B♭7×15
  • Am7♭5×8
  • D7♭9×7
  • E♭6×6
  • Gm7×5

Key centres reached by ii–V

E♭ major, F minor and G minor

Characteristics

  • AABA song form

Recorded on these albums

1953 Oscar Peterson Plays Irving Berlin
Oscar Peterson
1957 Ella and Louis Again, Volume Two
Ella and Louis · “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm”
1958 Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book
Ella Fitzgerald · “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm”
1958 Stay With Me
Billie Holiday · “I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm”
1959 A Winter Romance
Dean Martin · “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm”
1959 Oscar Peterson Plays the Irving Berlin Songbook
Oscar Peterson · “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm”
1961 Ring-a-Ding Ding!
Frank Sinatra · “I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm”
1985 For All Seasons
Yehudi Menuhin & Stephane Grappelli · “I've got my love to keep me warm”
1988 Menuhin & Grappelli Play Berlin, Kern, Porter & Rodgers and Hart
Yehudi Menuhin & Stéphane Grappelli · “I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm”
1995 On The Sentimental Side
Billie Holiday
1998 Frank Sinatra - Legend Vocal Gold Series
Frank Sinatra
2004 The Love Songs
Billie Holiday · “I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm”
2008 Ella & Louis (and Oscar Too)
Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong & The Oscar Peterson Trio · “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm”
— Ella Et Louis
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong · “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm”

Historic 78 rpm recordings

  • I'VE GOT MY LOVE TO KEEP ME WARM ARNE DAMNERUS GROUP · ARNE DAMNERUS archive.org ↗

Standards with similar changes

Similarity of the chord progression, independent of key.

TitleComposerKeyFormGroove
Too Young To Go Steady 39% Jimmy McHugh F major AABA · 32 Ballad
The Folks Who Live On The Hill 33% Jerome Kern C major AABA · 44 Ballad
If I Had You 33% Campbell-Connelly-Shapiro B♭ major AABA · 32 Slow swing
Diane 32% Rapee-pollack E♭ major ABAB · 32 Medium swing
In The Still Of The Night 30% Cole Porter F major ABCC · 72 Up-tempo swing
Let's Call The Whole Thing Off 30% George Gershwin G major AABA · 34 Medium swing
My One And Only Love 29% Wood-Mellin C major AABA · 32 Ballad
Teach Me Tonight 28% Gene DePaul E♭ major AABA · 32 Slow swing

Frequently asked questions

What key is I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm in?

I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm is usually played in E♭ major. For B♭ instruments that is F major, for E♭ instruments C major.

Who wrote I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm?

I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm was written by Irving Berlin.

What is the form of I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm?

I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm has 4 sections (AABA) with 56 bars in total.

How fast is I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm played?

The usual groove is Medium swing.

What are the chord changes to I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm?

The opening bars are Eb6 | Gbdim7 | Fm7 | Bb7. The full chart above can be transposed to any key.