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 ([email protected]) 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]
