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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
If I misBtreat you girl,E7 I sE7ure dont mean no haBrm B B Well Im a moF#7therless child who dF#7ont know right from wroBng.B B
Please Btell me pretty mamaE7, hoE7ney whered you stay last nigBht B B Please tBell me pretty mama,E7 honeE7y whered you stay last niBghtB B Well you F#7didnt come home til theF#7 sun was shining briBghtB. B
I have to Bgo so far galE7, geE7t my ham bonesB boBileBd BI have to go so far galE7, geE7t my ham bones boiBledB B Well thesF#7e other loF#7tta women gonBna BletB my ham bones burn.
Now I dBid more for you galE7, tE7han your daddy ever dBoneB B Now I dBid more for you galE7, thE7an your daddy ever doBne B B Well I F#7give you my jellF#7y, hF#7e aint give you noBne.B B
And when you Bsee two womenE7 alE7ways runnin hand in hBandB B And you Bsee two womenE7 alE7ways running hand in haBnd B B You can F#7bet your bottom doF#7llar oF#7ne B B B
Well Im goBin to the river E7getE7 me a tangled rocking chaBir B B Im goBin to the river E7getE7 me a tangled rocking chairB B B And if the F#7blues overtake me gonna F#7rock away from thBere
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