Tar Baby Chords
by Sade
Tar Baby by Sade is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C#m. It uses the chords C#m7, G#aug, Bsus4, B, Emaj7 and Amaj7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
verse 1
C#m7 G#aug
Granma came to see
C#m7 G#aug
Something she could not believe
C#m7 G#aug
How could her girl be
C#m7 G#aug
So naive
Bsus4 B Bsus4 B
Tar baby, tar baby told
N.C.
The secret she conceived
verse 2
C#m7 G#aug
That big old smile of yours
C#m7 G#aug
Could turn the wind into a song
C#m7 G#aug
How could I have doubted
C#m7 G#aug
Honey it's with me that you belong
Bsus4 B Bsus4 B
Tar baby, tar baby
B C#m7
I love you so
Bridge
Emaj7 Amaj7
Like a brand new blade
Emaj7 Amaj7
You cut into my life
Emaj7 Amaj7
Cut through two decades
Emaj7 Amaj7
Like a hot coal on ice
Bsus4 B Bsus4 B
Tar baby, my tar baby
Bsus4 B B
It ma----ybe was meant to be
verse 3
C#m7 G#aug
When I look at you
C#m7 G#aug
I can't believe my eyes
C#m7
And with your magic
G#aug C#m7 G#aug
I think you just might charm the birds out of the sky
Bsus4 B Bsus4 B Bsus4 B
Tar baby, tar baby, tar baby
N.C.
Came good out of grief
Bridge
Emaj7 Amaj7
A golden thread inside of the web
Emaj7 Amaj7
That I got caught in
Emaj7 Amaj7
Oh, it's a lover's revenge, but out of the pain
Emaj7 Amaj7
Come the best things
Outro
Emaj7 Amaj7
You cut into my life
Emaj7 Amaj7
You cut into my life (baby baby baby baby don't you know that)
Emaj7 Amaj7
You cut into my life (I love you)
Emaj7 Amaj7
You cut into my life
Emaj7 Amaj7
La la la la la ooh
Emaj7 Amaj7
You can turn the wind into a song
Emaj7 Amaj7
La la la la la baby baby baby
Emaj7
It's with me you belong