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Robert Hicks - Motherless Child Blues chords
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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# 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.
[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/r/robert-hicks/310874.html ]
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]
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