You Don't Own Me by Lesley Gore

Overview

Key: G minor · Chords used: 19 · Sections: 10

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Chorus → Solo → Chorus → Chorus → Chorus

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). 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.

Key changes

• Chorus 3 moves to A♭ major.
• Chorus 5 moves to A major.
• Chorus 6 moves to B♭ major.

Section by section

Intro

• Gm
  i

Verse 1

• Gm – Cm – D7 – Cm – D7 (×2)
  i – iv – V7 – iv – V7
• G
  I

Chorus 1

• G – Em – C – D7
  I – vi – IV – V7

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 3

• A♭ – Fm – D♭ – E♭7
  I – vi – IV – V7

Solo

• A♭m – D♭m – E♭7 – D♭m – E♭7 (×2)
  i – iv – V7 – iv – V7
• A♭
  I

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 3.

Chorus 5

• A – F♯m – D – E7
  I – vi – IV – V7

Chorus 6

• B♭ – Gm – E♭ – F7
  I – vi – IV – V7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G (I) is borrowed from the parallel key, G major.
• Em (vi) is borrowed from the parallel key, G major.
• C (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, G major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1211, CC0), via ChoCo.
• 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.