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- From: BoogieBoy@aol.com
- Subject: CRD/LYR:"Motherless Child"-EC
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- 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.)]
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- 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
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- / /- -/-
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- B E7 F#7
- --7-- --7-- --0--
- --7-- --5-- --7--
- --0-- --0-- --6--
- --0-- --6-- --0--
- --6-- --7-- --x--
- --7-- --x-- --x--
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- 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--
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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
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- End: E7 F#7 E7 B
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