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Motherless Child by Eric Clapton - Guitar Chords

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Version 1 Version 2

            This version is a lot more complete than the one you've got right now:
[that version originally by   (Hoke John A.)]

Motherless Child
Eric Clapton
 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
e|--7--|       |--7--|       |--0--|
B|--7--|       |--5--|       |--7--|
G|--0--|       |--0--|       |--6--|
D|--0--|       |--6--|       |--0--|
A|--6--|       |--7--|       |--x--|
E|--7--|       |--x--|       |--x--|

  Sometimes B is played like this, except first B of the verse:
    B
e|--7-7-7-7---7-7--|
B|--7-7-7-7---7-7--|
G|--0-0-0-0---0-0--|
D|--0-0-6-0---0-0--|
A|--6-0-0-0---0-6--|
E|--7-7-7-7---7-7--|


[Intro]

B B B

[Verse 1]

         (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.

[Verse 2]

       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.

[Verse 3]
          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.

[Verse 4]
       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.

[Verse 5]
             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 got the other one's man.

[Verse 6]
          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 
        

We also have 53 songs by Eric Clapton

• After Midnight
• Alberta
• Autumn Leaves
• Bad Love
• Badge
• Before You Accuse Me
• Bell Bottom Blues
• Blue Eyes Blue
• Blue Eyes Blues
• Blues Power
• Change The World
• Cocaine
• Crossroads
• Easy Now
• Forever Man
• Give Me Strength
• Hard Times
• Hello Old Friend
• Holy Mother
• Hound Dog
• I Cant Stand It
• I Looked Away
• I Shot The Sheriff
• I Want A Little Girl
• Its In The Way That You Use It
• Ive Got A Rock N Roll Heart
• Key To The Highway
• Knock On Wood
• Knocking On Heavens Door
• Lay Down Sally
• Let It Grow
• Let It Rain
• Lonely Stranger
• May You Never
• Motherless Child
• Motherless Children
• My Fathers Eyes
• No Alibis
• Nobody Knows You When Youre Down And Out
• Old Love
• Please Be With Me
• Pretending
• Promises
• River Of Tears
• Running On Faith
• San Francisco Bay Blues
• Smile
• Someone Like You
• Sweet Home Chicago
• Tears In Heaven
• Tulsa Time
• Wonderful Tonight
• Worried Life Blues

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