Motherless Child

If I mistreat you, girl

I sure don't mean no harm

If I mistreat you, girl

I sure don't mean no harm

Well, I'm a motherless child

I don't know right from wrong

Please tell me, pretty mama

Honey, where'd you stay last night?

Please tell me, pretty mama

Honey, where'd you stay last night?

Well, you didn't come home

Till the sun way shining bright

I had to go so far, girl

To get my ham bones boiled

Had to go so far, girl

To get my ham bones boiled

Well, he's had a lotta women

Gonna let my ham bones burn

Hell, I did more for you, girl

Than your daddy ever done

Hell, I did more for you, girl

Than your daddy ever done

Well, I give you my jewelry

And he ain't give you none

And when you see two women

Always runnin' hand in hand

When you see two women

Always runnin' hand in hand

You can bet your bottom dollar

One got the other one's man

Lord, I'm goin' to the river

Get me a tangled rockin' chair

I'm goin' to the river

Get me a tangled rockin' chair

And if the blues overtake me

Gonna rock away from here