Artist: Robert Hicks (Barbeque Bob)
Song:Â Motherless Chile Blues
Format: 78rpm record
Written: Robert Hicks (1927)
URL:Â Â http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xem111DGaUo&feature=related
Cover Version -
Artist: Eric Clapton
Album: From the Cradle (1994)
URL:Â Â http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoFKYsRj7Gk
Author: Richard Grosser (
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Tuning: Open G (DGDGBD)
Capo : Fourth Fret
Tempo: Accelerando
Style: Ragtime Guitar Blues
Guitar: 12 String Acoustic
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Chords:
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Verse 1:
If I mistreat you girl, I sure don t mean no harm.
If I mistreat you girl, I sure don t mean no harm.
Well, I m a motherless child; I don t know right from wrong.
Verse 2:
Please tell me pretty mama, honey where d you stay last night?
Please tell me pretty mama, honey where d you stay last night?
Well, you didn t come home till the sun was shining bright.
Verse 3:
I had to go so far girl to get my ham bones boiled.
Had to go so far girl to get my ham bones boiled.
Well, he s had a lotto women, gonna let my ham bones burn.
Verse 4:
Well, I did more for you, girl, than your Daddy ever done.
Well, I did more for you, girl, than your Daddy ever done.
Well, I give you my jelly, he ain t give you none.
Verse 5:
And when you see two women, always running hand in hand.
When you see two wo-men, always running hand in hand.
You can bet your bottom dollar, one got the other one s man.
Verse 6:
Lord, I m going to the ri-ver, get me a tangled rocking chair.
I m going to the river, get me a tangled rocking chair.
And if the blues overtake me, gonna rock away from here.
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