"Redbone" by Childish Gambino
Tabbed by Kenneth Wesley and Vishnu Sriram
Enjoy!
Note: Fairly confident that this song is tuned at 432Hz in D# Minor, as opposed to the typical 440Hz.
Relative to 440Hz, this is about 32 cents flat in D# Minor.
Riff Tab
E|------------------------------9-|-----------------------------------|
B|--11-9-7-6------------------7---|--11-----------9-------------------|
G|-----------6----8-------6-8-----|---------10-11---11----------------|
D|-------------8------------------|-----------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
E|------------------------------9-|-----------------------------------|
B|--11-9-7-6------------------7---|--11--------9-7--------------------|
G|-----------6---8--------6-8-----|----------------6h8----------------|
D|-------------8------------------|-----------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
[Intro]
B C# D#m
[Verse 1]
B C# D#m
Daylight
B C# D#m
I wake up feeling like you won't play right
B C# D#m
I used to know, but now that shit don't feel right
B C# D#m
It made me put away my pride
B C# D#m
So long
B C# D#m
You made a nigga wait for some, so long
B C# D#m
You make it hard for a boy like that to know wrong
B C# D#m
I'm wishing I could make this mine, oh
[Pre-Chorus]
D#m
If you want it, yeah
G#m G#m F#m
You can have it, oh, oh, oh
Fdim
If you need it, oooh
C# D#m
We can make it, oh
G#m G#m F#m
If you want it
F (Bb)(switches to D# major)
You can have it
[Chorus]
Bb B C#
But stay woke
D#m
Niggas creepin'
B C#
They gon' find you
D#m
Gon' catch you sleepin' (Oooh)
Bb B C#
Now stay woke
D#m
Niggas creepin'
B C#m D#m
Now don't you close your eyes
[Verse 2]
B C# D#m
Too late
B C# D#m
You wanna make it right, but now it's too late
B C# D#m
My peanut butter chocolate cake with Kool-Aid
B C# D#m
I'm trying not to waste my time
[Pre-Chorus] (This chorus I'm following the bassline, which is different from the first one)
B C# D#m (Optional A# before the B, or any combination of these 3 chords as per the bassline
If you want it, yeah
B C# D#m
You can have it, oh, oh, oh
B C# D#m
If you need it, oooh
B C# D#m
We can make it, oh
B C# D#m
If you want it
F (A#) (switches to D# major)
You can have it, aaaaaah!
[Chorus]
Bb B C#
But stay woke
D#m
Niggas creepin'
B C#
They gon' find you
D#m
Gon' catch you sleepin' (Oooh)
Bb B C#
Now stay woke
D#m
Niggas creepin'
B C#m D#m
Now don't you close your eyes
Bb B C#
But stay woke
D#m
Niggas creepin'
B C#
They gon' find you
D#m
Gon' catch you sleepin' (Oooh)
Bb B C#
Now stay woke
D#m
Niggas creepin'
B C#m D#m
Now don't you close your eyes
[Outro]
Repeat: D#m G#m F#m Fdim C#m
D#m G#m F#m Fdim ---
(Piano plays A's and D's in octaves and by single notes.)
