Robert Hicks – Motherless Child Blues chords
Chords:
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# 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.[End]