Forever Texas by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: B Mixolydian · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 16

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)

• A – G – D (×2)
  bVII – bVI – bIII
• A – D – A
  bVII – bIII – bVII

Part 2 (0:12)

• G – D – A – G
  bVI – bIII – bVII – bVI

Part 3 (0:26)

• C – D – A – G – C
  bII – bIII – bVII – bVI – bII

Part 4 (0:38)

• D – A – E – G – A – E
  bIII – bVII – IV – bVI – bVII – IV

Part 5 (0:52)

• G – A – G – C – D
  bVI – bVII – bVI – bII – bIII

Part 6 (1:05)

• A – G – C – D – A
  bVII – bVI – bII – bIII – bVII

Part 7 (1:18)

• G – C – D – A – E – G
  bVI – bII – bIII – bVII – IV – bVI

Part 8 (1:31)

• A – E – G
  bVII – IV – bVI

Part 9 (1:44)

• B – G – E – C
  I – bVI – IV – bII

Part 10 (1:58)

• G – F♯ – G – G♯ – A – A♯ – B
  bVI – V – bVI – VI – bVII – VII – I

Part 11 (2:10)

• A – E – B – A
  bVII – IV – I – bVII

Part 12 (2:24)

• D – E – B – F♯ – A – B
  bIII – IV – I – V – bVII – I

Part 13 (2:37)

• F♯ – A – B – A
  V – bVII – I – bVII

Part 14 (2:51)

• D – E – B – A – D
  bIII – IV – I – bVII – bIII

Part 15 (3:03)

• E – B – A – E – B
  IV – I – bVII – IV – I

Part 16 (3:16)

• A – D – E – B – G – E – B
  bVII – bIII – IV – I – bVI – IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (Sing When You're Winning, 2000), 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 (Sing When You're Winning, 2000), 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.