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 (grosserr@gmail.com) Tuning: Open G (DGDGBD) Capo : Fourth Fret Tempo: Accelerando Style: Ragtime Guitar Blues Guitar: 12 String Acoustic Chords: F#BF#BD#F# B/F# : ======== 000000 E/B : ======== 999999 F#7 : ======== XX0214 Verse 1:

^B/F#If I mistreat you girl,^E/B I sure don't mean no ^B/F#harm. ^B/F#If I mistreat you girl, I sure don't mean no ^B/F#harm. ^B/F#Well, I'm a ^F#7motherless child; I don't know right from ^B/F#wrong.

Verse 2:

^B/F#Please tell me pretty mama,^E/B honey where'd you stay last ^B/F#night? ^B/F#Please tell me pretty mama, honey where'd you stay last ^B/F#night? ^B/F#Well, you ^F#7didn't come home till the sun was shining ^B/F#bright.

Verse 3:

^B/F#I had to go so far ^E/Bgirl to get my ham bones ^B/F#boiled. ^B/F#Had to go so far girl to get my ham bones bo^B/F#iled. ^B/F#Well, he's ^F#7had a lotto women, gonna let my ham bones ^B/F#burn.

Verse 4:

^B/F#Well, I did more for you, ^E/Bgirl, than your Daddy ever ^B/F#done. ^B/F#Well, I did more for you, girl, than your Daddy ever ^B/F#done. ^B/F#Well, I ^F#7give you my jelly, he ain't give you ^B/F#none.

Verse 5:

^B/F#And when you see two women^E/B, always running hand in ha^B/F#nd. ^B/F#When you see two wo-men, always running hand in ^B/F#hand. ^B/F#You can ^F#7bet your bottom dollar, one got the other one's ^B/F#man.

Verse 6:

^B/F#Lord, I'm going to the ri-^E/Bver, get me a tangled rocking ch^B/F#air. ^B/F#I'm going to the river, get me a tangled rocking ^B/F#chair. ^B/F#And if the ^F#7blues overtake me, gonna rock away from ^B/F#here.

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Robert Hicks - Motherless child blues