Me and My Monkey by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: C minor · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 14

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)

• Cm – Fm – B♭ – A♭ (×2)
  i – iv – bVII – bVI

Part 2 (0:31)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 3 (1:02)

• Cm – Fm – B♭ – A♭
  i – iv – bVII – bVI
• Gm – Fm (×2)
  v – iv

Part 4 (1:33)

• Gm – Fm – Gm – G – Cm – Fm – B♭ – A♭
  v – iv – v – V – i – iv – bVII – bVI

Part 5 (2:04)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 6 (2:35)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 7 (3:06)

Same chords as Part 3 (1:02).

Part 8 (3:37)

Same chords as Part 4 (1:33).

Part 9 (4:08)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 10 (4:39)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 11 (5:10)

Same chords as Part 3 (1:02).

Part 12 (5:41)

Same chords as Part 4 (1:33).

Part 13 (6:12)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 14 (6:43)

• Cm – Fm – B♭ – A♭ – Cm
  i – iv – bVII – bVI – 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 (Escapology, 2002), 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 (Escapology, 2002), 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.