Eric ClaptonMotherless Child
 



Motherless Child
(Eric Clapton)

This version is a lot more complete
than the one you've got right now:

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 don't mean no harm
        B              E7    E7                 B  B  B
If I mistreat you girl,   I sure don't mean no harm
            F#7                 F#7                    B  B  B
Well I'm a motherless child who don't know right from wrong.
       B                  E7  E7                          B  B  B
Please tell me pretty mama, honey where'd you stay last night
        B                  E7   E7                       B  B  B
Please tell me pretty mama, honey where'd you stay last night
         F#7                    F#7                 B  B  B
Well you didn't 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 ain't 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 I'm goin to the river get me a tangled rocking chair
     B               E7 E7                         B  B  B
I'm 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

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