Your Gay Friend by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 18

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 (0:01)

• G
  I

Part 2 (0:04)

• Em – D – G – Am – C – G
  vi – V – I – ii – IV – I

Part 3 (0:15)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:04).

Part 4 (0:27)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:04).

Part 5 (0:39)

• D – Em – Bm – C – G – D – Em – Bm – C
  V – vi – iii – IV – I – V – vi – iii – IV

Part 6 (0:51)

• G – D – Em – Bm – C (×2)
  I – V – vi – iii – IV

Part 7 (1:02)

• Bm – C – G – Em – D – G
  iii – IV – I – vi – V – I

Part 8 (1:14)

• Am – C – G – Em – D – G
  ii – IV – I – vi – V – I

Part 9 (1:26)

• Am – C – G – D – Em
  ii – IV – I – V – vi

Part 10 (1:37)

• Bm – C – G – D – Em (×2)
  iii – IV – I – V – vi

Part 11 (1:49)

• Bm – C – G – D – Em
  iii – IV – I – V – vi
• Bm – C (×2)
  iii – IV
• G
  I

Part 12 (2:01)

• Am – G – C – D – Em – F♯m – G
  ii – I – IV – V – vi – vii – I

Part 13 (2:13)

• Am – Bm – C – D – Em – F♯m – G – D
  ii – iii – IV – V – vi – vii – I – V

Part 14 (2:24)

• Em – Bm – C – G – D (×2)
  vi – iii – IV – I – V

Part 15 (2:36)

Same chords as Part 14 (2:24).

Part 16 (2:48)

Same chords as Part 14 (2:24).

Part 17 (2:59)

• Em
  vi
• Bm – C (×2)
  iii – IV
• G
  I

Part 18 (3:11)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:01).

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (Intensive Care, 2005), 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 (Intensive Care, 2005), 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.