Motherless Child Blues

Artist:  Robert Hicks (Barbeque Bob)

Song:    Motherless Chile Blues

Format:  78rpm record

Written: Robert Hicks (1927)

URL:     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xem111DGaUo&feature=related



Cover Version -

Artist:  Eric Clapton

Album:   From the Cradle (1994)

URL:     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoFKYsRj7Gk



Author: Richard Grosser ([email protected])



Tuning: Open G (DGDGBD)

Capo  : Fourth Fret



Tempo:  Accelerando

Style:  Ragtime Guitar Blues

Guitar: 12 String Acoustic

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Chords:

                  F#BF#BD#F#

B/F#   : ======== 000000

E/B    : ======== 999999

F#7    : ======== XX0214





Verse 1:

B/F#                   E/B                   B/F#

If I mistreat you girl, I sure don't mean no harm.

B/F#                                         B/F#

If I mistreat you girl, I sure don't mean no harm.

B/F#        F#7                                       B/F#

Well, I'm a motherless child; I don't know right from wrong.





Verse 2:

B/F#                       E/B                          B/F#

Please tell me pretty mama, honey where'd you stay last night?

B/F#                                                    B/F#

Please tell me pretty mama, honey where'd you stay last night?

B/F#      F#7                                       B/F#

Well, you didn't come home till the sun was shining bright.





Verse 3:

B/F#               E/B                      B/F#

I had to go so far girl to get my ham bones boiled.

B/F#                                        B/F#

Had to go so far girl to get my ham bones boiled.

B/F#       F#7                                       B/F#

Well, he's had a lotto women, gonna let my ham bones burn.





Verse 4:

B/F#                      E/B                        B/F#

Well, I did more for you, girl, than your Daddy ever done.

B/F#                                                 B/F#

Well, I did more for you, girl, than your Daddy ever done.

B/F#    F#7                                  B/F#

Well, I give you my jelly, he ain't give you none.





Verse 5:

B/F#                      E/B                        B/F#

And when you see two women, always running hand in hand.

B/F#                                            B/F#

When you see two wo-men, always running hand in hand.

B/F#    F#7                                             B/F#

You can bet your bottom dollar, one got the other one's man.





Verse 6:

B/F#                      E/B                             B/F#

Lord, I'm going to the ri-ver, get me a tangled rocking chair.

B/F#                                             B/F#

I'm going to the river, get me a tangled rocking chair.

B/F#       F#7                                     B/F#

And if the blues overtake me, gonna rock away from here.





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