"Redbone" by Childish Gambino
Tabbed by Kenneth Wesley and Vishnu Sriram
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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.)
