Eric Clapton

Motherless child

Eric Clapton


Tom: Eb

capo at 4th fret, but notes here are in the correct key.
Sometimes B is played with only the 4 bottom strings

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
        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.

       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.

          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