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