Baby Girl Window by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 9

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Part 1 (0:00)

• D – Asus4 (×4)
  I – Vsus4

Part 2 (0:22)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 3 (0:45)

• D – Asus4 (×2)
  I – Vsus4
• G – Em (×2)
  IV – ii

Part 4 (1:07)

• D – Asus4 (×2)
  I – Vsus4
• B♭maj7 – Fmaj7 – Em9
  bVImaj7 – bIIImaj7 – ii9

Part 5 (1:30)

• B♭maj7 – Fmaj7/C
  bVImaj7 – bIIImaj⁴₃
• D – Asus4 (×3)
  I – Vsus4

Part 6 (1:52)

• D – Asus4 (×3)
  I – Vsus4
• G – Em
  IV – ii

Part 7 (2:14)

• G – Em
  IV – ii
• D – Asus4 (×2)
  I – Vsus4
• B♭maj7 – Fmaj7
  bVImaj7 – bIIImaj7

Part 8 (2:36)

• Em9 – B♭maj7 – Fmaj7/C
  ii9 – bVImaj7 – bIIImaj⁴₃
• D – Asus4 (×2)
  I – Vsus4

Part 9 (2:58)

• D – Asus4 – D
  I – Vsus4 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭maj7 (bVImaj7) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• Fmaj7 (bIIImaj7) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• Fmaj7/C (bIIImaj⁴₃) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (Life Thru a Lens, 1997), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (Life Thru a Lens, 1997), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.