Standards · 1930
When Your Lover Has Gone chords & key
- Key
- G major
- Form
- ABAC
- Bars
- 32
- Groove
- Medium swing
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Year
- 1930
“When Your Lover Has Gone” is a jazz standard by E.A. Swan from 1930. It is usually played in G major as a medium swing, and the 32-bar ABAC form has 4 sections. Harmonically it contains 2 major ii–V–I cadences and 1 minor ii–V–i, uses 17 different chords and moves between the key centres G major and A minor. In this atlas it appears on 9 album tracks.
Chord changes
Showing in: Concert (C) — G major
Changes as commonly played (concert pitch). Your band's version may differ.
Harmonic analysis
Most used chords
- Gmaj7×6
- A7×5
- Em7×4
- Am7×4
- G6×3
- F7×3
Key centres reached by ii–V
G major and A minor
Characteristics
- ABAC song form
History
"When Your Lover Has Gone" is a 1931 composition by Einar Aaron Swan which, after being featured in the James Cagney film Blonde Crazy that same year, has become a jazz standard.
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Recorded on these albums
Historic 78 rpm recordings
- When Your Lover Has Gone Irving Fazola's Dixielanders · Irving Fazola · Julian Laine · Tony… · 1945 archive.org ↗
- WHEN YOUR LOVER HAS GONE THE BILL DAVISON SIX · Wild Bill Davison · Garvin Bushell · Jimmy… · 1947 archive.org ↗
- When Your Lover Has Gone The Roy Eldridge Quintet · Swan · Roy Eldridge · Oscar Peterson ·… · 1954 archive.org ↗
- WHEN YOUR LOVER HAS GONE THE BILL DAVISON SIX · Wild Bill Davison · Garvin Bushell · Jimmy… · 1959 archive.org ↗
Standards with similar changes
Similarity of the chord progression, independent of key.
| Title | Key |
|---|---|
| My Heart Stood Still 28% | F major |
| Manhattan 23% | F major |
| They Didn't Believe Me 22% | G major |
| Little Girl Blue 21% | F major |
| For All We Know 20% | E♭ major |
| Making Whoopee 20% | G major |
| Where Are You? 20% | G major |
Frequently asked questions
What key is When Your Lover Has Gone in?
When Your Lover Has Gone is usually played in G major. For B♭ instruments that is A major, for E♭ instruments E major.
Who wrote When Your Lover Has Gone?
When Your Lover Has Gone was written by E.A. Swan (1930).
What is the form of When Your Lover Has Gone?
When Your Lover Has Gone has 4 sections (ABAC) with 32 bars in total.
How fast is When Your Lover Has Gone played?
The usual groove is Medium swing.
What are the chord changes to When Your Lover Has Gone?
The opening bars are Gmaj7 | G6 | Gm6 | C7. The full chart above can be transposed to any key.