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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 boB/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 womenE/B, always running hand in haB/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 chB/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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