From: [email protected]
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 [email protected] (Hoke John A.)]
Motherless Child
Eric Clapton
[email protected] 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
