#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: BoogieBoy@aol.com Subject: CRD/LYR:"Motherless Child"-EC This version is a lot more complete than the one you've got right now: [that version originally by jhoke@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Hoke John A.)] Motherless Child Eric Clapton Boogieboy@aol.com and others capo at 4th fret, but notes here are in the correct key. Sometimes B is played with only the 4 bottom strings / /- -/- B E7 F#7 --7-- --7-- --0-- --7-- --5-- --7-- --0-- --0-- --6-- --0-- --6-- --0-- --6-- --7-- --x-- --7-- --x-- --x-- Sometimes B is played like this, except first B of the verse: B --7-7-7-7---7-7-- --7-7-7-7---7-7-- --0-0-0-0---0-0-- --0-0-6-0---0-0-- --6-0-0-0---0-6-- --7-7-7-7---7-7-- Intro: B B B (add 1/2 a B) B (this time only) E7 E7 B B B If I mistreat you girl, I sure dont mean no harm B E7 E7 B B B If I mistreat you girl, I sure dont mean no harm F#7 F#7 B B B Well Im a motherless child who dont know right from wrong. B E7 E7 B B B Please tell me pretty mama, honey whered you stay last night B E7 E7 B B B Please tell me pretty mama, honey whered you stay last night F#7 F#7 B B B Well you didnt come home til the sun was shining bright. B E7 E7 B B B I have to go so far gal, get my ham bones boiled B E7 E7 B B B I have to go so far gal, get my ham bones boiled F#7 F#7 B B B Well these other lotta women gonna let my ham bones burn. B E7 E7 B B B Now I did more for you gal, than your daddy ever done B E7 E7 B B B Now I did more for you gal, than your daddy ever done F#7 F#7 F#7 B B B Well I give you my jelly, he aint give you none. B E7 E7 B B B And when you see two women always runnin hand in hand B E7 E7 B B B And you see two women always running hand in hand F#7 F#7 F#7 B B B You can bet your bottom dollar one B E7 E7 B B B Well Im goin to the river get me a tangled rocking chair B E7 E7 B B B Im goin to the river get me a tangled rocking chair F#7 F#7 B And if the blues overtake me gonna rock away from there End: E7 F#7 E7 B