Eric Clapton, Motherless Child (1994)
Key: :[G#] (w: Robert "Barbecue Bob" Hicks, 1927)
VERSE 1:
[G#] If I mistreat you girl
[C#], I sure don't mean no
[G#] harm
[G#] If I mistreat you girl
[C#], I sure don't mean no
[G#] harm
Well, I'm a
[D7] motherless child; I don't know right from
[G#] wrong
VERSE 2:
[G#] Please tell me pretty mama
[C#], honey where'd you stay last
[G#] night?
[G#] Please tell me pretty mama
[C#], honey where'd you stay last
[G#] night?
Well, you
[D7] didn't come home till the sun was shining
[G#] bright
VERSE 3:
[G#] I had to go so far girl
[C#], to get my ham bones
[G#] boiled
[G#] Had to go so far girl
[C#], to get my ham bones
[G#] boiled
Well, he's
[D7] had a lotta women, gonna let my ham bones
[G#] burn
VERSE 4:
[G#] Well, I did more for you, girl
[C#], than your daddy ever
[G#] done
[G#] Well, I did more for you, girl
[C#], than your daddy ever
[G#] done
[G#] Well, I
[D7] give you my jelly, he ain't give you
[G#] none
VERSE 5:
[G#] And when you see two women
[C#], always running hand in
[G#] hand
[G#] When you see two women
[C#], always running hand in
[G#] hand
You can
[D7] bet your bottom dollar, one got the other one a
[G#] man
VERSE 6:
[G#] Lord, I'm going to the river
[C#], get me a tangled rocking
[G#] chair
[G#] I'm going to the river
[C#], get me a tangled rocking
[G#] chair
And if the
[D7] blues overtake me, gonna rock away from
[G#] here