Eric Clapton, Motherless Child (1994)
Key: :[C] (w: Robert "Barbecue Bob" Hicks, 1927)
VERSE 1:
[C] If I mistreat you girl
[F], I sure don't mean no
[C] harm
[C] If I mistreat you girl
[F], I sure don't mean no
[C] harm
Well, I'm a
[F#7] motherless child; I don't know right from
[C] wrong
VERSE 2:
[C] Please tell me pretty mama
[F], honey where'd you stay last
[C] night?
[C] Please tell me pretty mama
[F], honey where'd you stay last
[C] night?
Well, you
[F#7] didn't come home till the sun was shining
[C] bright
VERSE 3:
[C] I had to go so far girl
[F], to get my ham bones
[C] boiled
[C] Had to go so far girl
[F], to get my ham bones
[C] boiled
Well, he's
[F#7] had a lotta women, gonna let my ham bones
[C] burn
VERSE 4:
[C] Well, I did more for you, girl
[F], than your daddy ever
[C] done
[C] Well, I did more for you, girl
[F], than your daddy ever
[C] done
[C] Well, I
[F#7] give you my jelly, he ain't give you
[C] none
VERSE 5:
[C] And when you see two women
[F], always running hand in
[C] hand
[C] When you see two women
[F], always running hand in
[C] hand
You can
[F#7] bet your bottom dollar, one got the other one a
[C] man
VERSE 6:
[C] Lord, I'm going to the river
[F], get me a tangled rocking
[C] chair
[C] I'm going to the river
[F], get me a tangled rocking
[C] chair
And if the
[F#7] blues overtake me, gonna rock away from
[C] here
