My Favorite Things chords

by Julie Andrews

Lyrics: Richard Rodgers / Music: Oscar Hammerstein
Original Published Key: Em (tabbed chords below). We will chart the song in the easier key of Dm.
Music: Key of Dm in 3/4 time at a lively animated tempo.
Chords: Dm, Bbmaj7, Gm7, C7, F, Bb, A7, D, G, G7, C7b9
Capo on 1st fret if playing with the video (Ebm)
Beginners: If you can't play barre chords, there are open chord alternatives that only use the top 4 strings:
Bbmaj7 - xx3231
Gm7 - xx3333 (easy mini-barre)

My Favorite Things

The Relative Major Key of Dm is highlighted (F) - Transpose to any other key.

    Dm
1. Rain-drops on ros-es  and whisk-ers on kit-tens
   Bbmaj7
   Bright cop-per ket-tles and warm wool-en mit-tens
   Gm7          C7         F            Bb
   Brown pa-per pack-a-ges tied up with strings
   F           Bb        Gm6        A7        Dm
   These are a few of my fa-vor-ite things |      |   𝄎   |

   Dm
2. Cream col-ored pon-ies and crisp ap-ple strud-els
   Bbmaj7
   Door-bells and sleigh-bells and schnitz-el with noo-dles
   Gm7             C7           F             Bb
   Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
   F           Bb        Gm6        A7         D
   These are a few of my fa-vor-ite things. |     |   𝄎   |

   Dm
3. Girls in white dress-es with blue sat-in sash-es
   Bbmaj7
   Snow-flakes that stay on my nose and eye-lash-es
   Gm7           C7            F          Bb
   Sil-ver white win-ters that melt in-to springs
   F           Bb        Gm6        A7
   These are a few of my fa-vor-ite things

         Dm                    Gm6          A7
Refrain: When the dog bites    When the bee stings
         Dm                Bb
         When I'm feel-ing sad
           Bb                    G7
         I sim-ply re-mem-ber my fa-vor-ite things
             F    Bb  F       Bb  F      C7b9
         And then I   don't | feel   / |      |
         C7   F            Bb           F     C7     F     F
         So   bad |  𝄎  |      |  𝄎  |     |      |     |  ↑  |

Beginners: If you can't play barre chords, there are open chord alternatives that only use the top 4 strings:
Bbmaj7 - xx3231
Gm7 - xx3333 (easy mini-barre)

Chords in Em

Original Published Key:

     Em  E Cmaj7 A   A7 Am7 Am6  D7  G   C   B7 D7b9
e |--0---0---0---0---0---0---2---2---3---3---2---5--|
B |--0---0---0---2---2---1---1---1---0---3---0---4--|
G |--0---1---0---2---0---0---2---2---0---3---2---5--|
D |--2---2---2---2---2---2---2---0---0---5---1---4--|
A |--2---2---3---0---0---0---0-------2---5---2---5--|
E |--0-------------------------------3---3----------| 
                                                 B(mini-4)
  Numbers: frets  
  0: string is played open
  B: barre chord
  B(mini-4): mini barre on 4th fret over strings 2,3,4
  unmarked strings: don't play

The reason for not charting the song in the Key of Em was that the video key is in Ebm. To play with the video, you would need to place a capo on the 11th fret which is not ideal. However, it is possible if you have a long enough guitar neck.

You could detune each string by a semitone, then you could play along with the video in Em which is much easier. You will need to press the 'G' button on the Transposer as that is the relative major of Em. (Transposer only represents Major Keys)

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