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Originally Posted by JonPR
Summertime, too, often uses a minor ii chord in place of a m7b5.
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People play that tune in all sorts of imaginative ways, but as originally written the chord progression alternates between Bm6 and C#m6 for the i and ii chords during the first part of each verse.
Then Em7- E7 - G - Em7 - B7b13 - F#7 - C#7#9 - F - C#11 - C7#11 for the 1st and 3rd turnaround
And Bm11 - E5(#11) - D - E - A11 [A(add9)sus] - Bm - E7 - E7b5 for the 2nd turnaround
And Bm11 - E5(#11) - D - E - A11 [A(add9)sus] - D - G9 - C - F13 - Bm for the ending.
As you know, most people transpose the tune down to A minor and Gershwin did the same when the tune shows up a second time in the original opera.