Chords used:
F#mAF#m7BDC#E|--2----5----2----2----5----4--|
B|--2----5----2----4----7----6--|
G|--2----6----2----4----7----6--|
D|--4----7----2----4----7----6--|
A|--4----7----4----2----5----4--|
E|--2----5----2-----------------|
NC means no chord played
Chord sequence through the whole track is F#m, F#m7, B, D, C#.
You can play A instead of F#m7 if you like the sound of that more (I do this in the intro).
R.I.P. Pimp C
[Intro]
F#mAB
Well, well, well, well
DC#
Hello baby
F#mA
For one day you're here
BDC#F#m
And then you're gonnnnnne
F#m7
Well, well, well
B
Yeah, yeah
DC#
Yeah, yeah
F#mF#m7BD
I know
C#F#m
Lah dah dah dah dah
F#m7
Yeah
B
Well, well
DC#F#m
I know, I know, I know
F#m7
Yeah
BDC#
[Verse 1: 3-2]
F#mF#m7
Mama put me out at only fourteen
BDC#
So I start sellin' crack cocaine and codeine
F#m (F#m7)
Time to stack some paper, I gotta do it quick
BDC#
Thinking I'm a juvenile but they don't know who they messin with, yeah
F#mF#m7
My mama's only son
BDC#
But I live every day like it's my muthafuckin last one
F#mF#m7
Every nigga and they mama askin' why
BDC#F#m
But I'm in the game, live by the game, and in the game I'm a die
F#m7
And if I die or should I say if I go
BDC#
Bury me in Hiram Clarke next to the Come N Go
F#mF#m7
Cause tomorrow ain't promised to me
BDC#
The only thing promised to a playa is the penitentiary
F#mF#m7
So I'm a take care of my business on the smooth tip
BDC#
Watch my back sellin crack and pack two clips
F#mF#m7B
And when ya think about that you say "it'll be on"
DC#
It's a trip you're here today but the next day you're gone
[Hook]
F#mF#m7
One day you're here, baby (Yeah)
BDC#
And then you're gone (The next day you're gone)
F#mF#m7
One day you're here, baby (Wooooo)
BDC#
And then you're gone (Baby, the next day you're gone)
F#mF#m7
One day you're here, baby (Noooo)
BDC#
And then you're gone (The next day you're gone)
F#mF#m7
One day you're here, baby (Then you're gone)
BDC#
And then you're gone
[Verse 2: Bun B]
F#mF#m7
It's what we living in, man it ain't nothing but drama
BD
Everyone wanna harm ya
C#F#m
And New York niggas gettin shot for bombers
F#m7B
Now they got your life in the palm of they hand like California
DC#F#m
Niggas with dubs of hydroponic marijuana
F#m7B
Gangbangin got the ghetto hotter than a sauna
DC#F#m
Down in Orange my nigga Pots died on the corner
F#m7
Behind a funky-ass dice game
BDC#
I saw him once before he died wish it was twice man
F#mF#m7
I remember being eight deep off in Chucky crib
BDC#
Lettin us act bad not giving a fuck what we did
F#mF#m7
When we lost him I knew the world was comin to the end
BDC#
And I had to quit lettin that devil push me to a sin
F#mF#m7
My brother been in the pen for damn near ten
NC
But now it look like when he come out man I'm goin in
F#mF#m7B
So shit I walk around with my mind blown in my own fuckin zone
DC#
Cause one day you're here, the next day you're gone
F#mF#m7
One day you're here, baby
BDC#
And then you're gone (The next day you're gone)
F#mF#m7
One day you're here, baby (Wooooo)
BDC#
And then you're gone
[Verse 3: Pimp C]
F#mF#m7
I'm up early cause ain't enough light in the daytime
BDC#
Smoke two sweets and sold these chickens 'fo the clock strike nine
F#mF#m7
Big nut holder my boulders smolder on the PA pipes
BDC#
AK loader as I get swallowed under city lights
F#mF#m7
Niggas be lookin shife so I look shife back
BDC#
Can't show no weakness with these bitches get your life jacked
F#mF#m7
Man it's a trip where I stay especially for me
BDC#
Them bitches trying to lock me up for the whole century (No, no, no, no, no, no)
F#mF#m7
They gave my nigga Donny 40, Dante 19
BDC#
I wish that we could smoke again and take a tight lean
F#mF#m7
My world a trip you can ask Bun B bitch I ain't no liar
B NC
My man BoBo just lost his baby in a house fire (Oh, yeah)
F#mF#m7
And when I got on my knees that night to pray
BDC#
I asked God, "Why You let these killas live and take my homeboy's son away?" (Yeah)
F#mF#m7B
Man if you got kids, show em you love em cause God just might call em home
DC#
Cause one day they're here and baby the next day they're gone
[Outro]
Oooohhhhhh
F#m
Gonnnnnnne
F#m7
I know, you know
B
Well, well
Yeah
DC#
Aaahhhh
Lah dah dah dah
F#m
Gonnnnnnne
I know
F#m7DC#
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
F#m
Then they gone
F#m7
One day you're here, baby
C'mon
BDC#
And then you're gone
F#mF#m7
I know, you know
B
I know, yeah
DC#
Aaahhhh
F#m
Lah dah dah dah
F#m7
Mmmmmmmm
BD
Oooohhhhhh
C#F#m
No, no, no, no, no, no
C'mon
F#m7
No, no, no, no
BD
Baby, baby
C#
Lah dah dah dah
F#mF#m7
One day you're here, baby
BDC#F#m
And then you're gone (The next day you're gone)
F#m7B
One day you're here, baby (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
DC#
And then you're gone
F#m
The next day you're gone
F#m7B
Gone, c'mon, don't leave me
DC#
Yeah
F#mF#m7
Don't leave me baby