Chords
Motherless child

Key: B

Introduction:

            Bis  
            Bis  
        B  
                                  B  
        B                              E7                                                      B  
If I mistreat you girl,      I sure don t mean no harm
                     B                                    E7                                                      B  
If I mistreat you girl,      I sure don t mean no harm
                                F#7                                                                                                  B  
Well I m a motherless child who don t know right from wrong.
                  B                                              E7                                                                         B  
Please tell me pretty mama, honey where d you stay last night
                     B                                              E7                                                                    B  
Please tell me pretty mama, honey where d you stay last night
                        F#7                                                                                                  B  
Well you didn t come home til the sun was shining bright.
                          B                              E7                                    B  
I have to go so far gal, get my ham bones boiled
B                                                         E7                                              B  
I have to go so far gal, get my ham bones boiled
                        F#7                                             B  
Well these other lotta women gonna let my ham bones burn.
                  B                                              E7                                                    B  
Now I did more for you gal, than your daddy ever done
                  B                                              E7                                                      B  
Now I did more for you gal, than your daddy ever done
                  F#7                                                                              B  
Well I give you my jelly, he ain t give you none.
                                  B                              E7                                                    B  
And when you see two women always runnin hand in hand
                     B                              E7                                                         B  
And you see two women always running hand in hand
                     F#7                                                                 B  
You can bet your bottom dollar one
                          B                                      E7                                                              B  
Well I m goin to the river get me a tangled rocking chair
             B                                      E7                                                                    B  
I m goin to the river get me a tangled rocking chair
                             F#7                                                                                             B  
And if the blues overtake me gonna rock away from there
     E7  F#7  E7  B