• Song:

    Motherless Child Blues

  • Artist:

    Robert Hicks

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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:
????????????????? F#BF#BD#F#
B?? : ======== 000000
E??? : ======== 999999
F#5    : ======== XX0214


Verse 1:
B5                   E5                   B5
If I mistreat you girl, I sure don't mean no harm.
B5                                         B5
If I mistreat you girl, I sure don't mean no harm.
B5        F#5                                       B5
Well, I'm a motherless child; I don't know right from wrong.


Verse 2:
B5                       E5                          B5
Please tell me pretty mama, honey where'd you stay last night?
B5                                                    B5
Please tell me pretty mama, honey where'd you stay last night?
B5      F#5                                       B5
Well, you didn't come home till the sun was shining bright.


Verse 3:
B5               E5                      B5
I had to go so far girl to get my ham bones boiled.
B5                                        B5
Had to go so far girl to get my ham bones boiled.
B5       F#5                                       B5
Well, he's had a lotto women, gonna let my ham bones burn.


Verse 4:
B5                      E5                        B5
Well, I did more for you, girl, than your Daddy ever done.
B5                                                 B5
Well, I did more for you, girl, than your Daddy ever done.
B5    F#5                                  B5
Well, I give you my jelly, he ain't give you none.


Verse 5:
B5                      E5                        B5
And when you see two women, always running hand in hand.
B5                                            B5
When you see two wo-men, always running hand in hand.
B5    F#5                                             B5
You can bet your bottom dollar, one got the other one's man.


Verse 6:
B5                      E5                             B5
Lord, I'm going to the ri-ver, get me a tangled rocking chair.
B5                                             B5
I'm going to the river, get me a tangled rocking chair.
B5       F#5                                     B5
And if the blues overtake me, gonna rock away from here.


[End]
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