Eric Clapton, Motherless Child (1994)
Key: :[A#] (w: Robert "Barbecue Bob" Hicks, 1927)
VERSE 1:
[A#] If I mistreat you girl
[D#], I sure don't mean no
[A#] harm
[A#] If I mistreat you girl
[D#], I sure don't mean no
[A#] harm
Well, I'm a
[E7] motherless child; I don't know right from
[A#] wrong
VERSE 2:
[A#] Please tell me pretty mama
[D#], honey where'd you stay last
[A#] night?
[A#] Please tell me pretty mama
[D#], honey where'd you stay last
[A#] night?
Well, you
[E7] didn't come home till the sun was shining
[A#] bright
VERSE 3:
[A#] I had to go so far girl
[D#], to get my ham bones
[A#] boiled
[A#] Had to go so far girl
[D#], to get my ham bones
[A#] boiled
Well, he's
[E7] had a lotta women, gonna let my ham bones
[A#] burn
VERSE 4:
[A#] Well, I did more for you, girl
[D#], than your daddy ever
[A#] done
[A#] Well, I did more for you, girl
[D#], than your daddy ever
[A#] done
[A#] Well, I
[E7] give you my jelly, he ain't give you
[A#] none
VERSE 5:
[A#] And when you see two women
[D#], always running hand in
[A#] hand
[A#] When you see two women
[D#], always running hand in
[A#] hand
You can
[E7] bet your bottom dollar, one got the other one a
[A#] man
VERSE 6:
[A#] Lord, I'm going to the river
[D#], get me a tangled rocking
[A#] chair
[A#] I'm going to the river
[D#], get me a tangled rocking
[A#] chair
And if the
[E7] blues overtake me, gonna rock away from
[A#] here