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Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams chords & key

Harry Barris

Key
C major
Form
AABA
Bars
32
Groove
Medium swing
Time signature
4/4

“Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams” is a jazz standard by Harry Barris. It is usually played in C major as a medium swing, and the 32-bar AABA form has 4 sections. Harmonically it contains no major ii–V–I cadences and 3 minor ii–V–i, uses 15 different chords. In this atlas it appears on 8 album tracks.

Chord changes

Showing in: Concert (C) — C major

A
Cmaj7F7
Em7A7
Dm7E7
Am7C7
Fmaj7G♭dim7
Cmaj7/GA7
D7G7
1.
Cmaj7G7
2.
Cmaj7
B
G♭7B7
E7A7
D7G7
Cmaj7
G♭7B7
E7A7
D7G7
Cmaj7G7
A
Cmaj7F7
Em7A7
Dm7E7
Am7C7
Fmaj7G♭dim7
Cmaj7/GA7
D7G7
Cmaj7G7

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

Harmonic analysis

0Major ii–V–I
3Minor ii–V–i
3ii–V moves
3Tritone substitutions
16Dominant chains
15Different chords

Most used chords

  • Cmaj7×8
  • A7×8
  • G7×8
  • E7×5
  • D7×5
  • F7×3

Characteristics

  • AABA song form

Recorded on these albums

1953 Dizzy Gillespie Plays in Paris
Dizzy Gillespie · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams”
1953 Horn of Plenty
Dizzy Gillespie · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams”
1954 Swing Easy!
Frank Sinatra · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams”
1959 Sleep Warm
Dean Martin · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams”
1959 Have Trumpet, Will Excite!
Dizzy Gillespie · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (and Dream Your Troubles Away)”
1964 Who Can I Turn To
Tony Bennett · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (and Dream Your Troubles Away)”
2002 It’s Easy to Remember
Bing Crosby · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (and Dream Your Troubles Away)”
— Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby · “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams”

Historic 78 rpm recordings

  • WRAP YOUR TROUBLES IN DREAMS SIDNEY BECHET and his feetwarmers · Sidney Bechet · Eddy Bernard ·… archive.org ↗
  • WRAP YOUR TROUBLES IN DREAMS FRANKIE TRUMBAUER And His Orchestra · Koehler · Moll · Borris archive.org ↗
  • Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams Billy Moll · Jerry Jerome · Fingers MacDigits · Specs Powell · 1945 archive.org ↗
  • WRAP YOUR TROUBLES IN DREAMS The Roy Eldridge Quintet · Roy Eldridge · Barney Kessel · Ray Brown… · 1954 archive.org ↗

Standards with similar changes

Similarity of the chord progression, independent of key.

TitleComposerKeyFormGroove
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home 26% Warfield-Williams G major AA · 34 Medium slow
Bourbon Street Parade 26% Paul Barbarin A♭ major ABAC · 32 Medium-up swing
I Got Rhythm 25% George Gershwin B♭ major AABA · 32 Up-tempo swing
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home 21% Hughie Cannon G major ABAC · 32 Medium-up swing
Don't Get Around Much Anymore 21% Duke Ellington C major AABA · 32 Medium swing
Lazy River 20% Hoagy Carmichael F major AB · 18 Slow swing

Frequently asked questions

What key is Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams in?

Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams is usually played in C major. For B♭ instruments that is D major, for E♭ instruments A major.

Who wrote Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams?

Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams was written by Harry Barris.

What is the form of Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams?

Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams has 4 sections (AABA) with 32 bars in total.

How fast is Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams played?

The usual groove is Medium swing.

What are the chord changes to Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams?

The opening bars are Cmaj7 F7 | Em7 A7 | Dm7 E7 | Am7 C7. The full chart above can be transposed to any key.