Motherless Child(Chords)

	        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 Im 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 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 

	        

Written by . Traditional, Carl Radle, Eric Patrick Clapton, Pd Traditional