Eric Clapton, Motherless Child (1994)
Key: :[F#] (w: Robert "Barbecue Bob" Hicks, 1927)
VERSE 1:
[F#] If I mistreat you girl
[B], I sure don't mean no
[F#] harm
[F#] If I mistreat you girl
[B], I sure don't mean no
[F#] harm
Well, I'm a
[C7] motherless child; I don't know right from
[F#] wrong
VERSE 2:
[F#] Please tell me pretty mama
[B], honey where'd you stay last
[F#] night?
[F#] Please tell me pretty mama
[B], honey where'd you stay last
[F#] night?
Well, you
[C7] didn't come home till the sun was shining
[F#] bright
VERSE 3:
[F#] I had to go so far girl
[B], to get my ham bones
[F#] boiled
[F#] Had to go so far girl
[B], to get my ham bones
[F#] boiled
Well, he's
[C7] had a lotta women, gonna let my ham bones
[F#] burn
VERSE 4:
[F#] Well, I did more for you, girl
[B], than your daddy ever
[F#] done
[F#] Well, I did more for you, girl
[B], than your daddy ever
[F#] done
[F#] Well, I
[C7] give you my jelly, he ain't give you
[F#] none
VERSE 5:
[F#] And when you see two women
[B], always running hand in
[F#] hand
[F#] When you see two women
[B], always running hand in
[F#] hand
You can
[C7] bet your bottom dollar, one got the other one a
[F#] man
VERSE 6:
[F#] Lord, I'm going to the river
[B], get me a tangled rocking
[F#] chair
[F#] I'm going to the river
[B], get me a tangled rocking
[F#] chair
And if the
[C7] blues overtake me, gonna rock away from
[F#] here
