Motherless Chile Blues

Motherless Chile Blues - Barbecue Bob

If I mistreat you gal I sure don't mean no harm

If I mistreat you gal I sure don't mean no harm

I'm a motherless child

And I don't know right from wrong

Please tell me pretty mama honey where you stayed last night

Tell me pretty mama

Oh honey where you stayed last night

You didn't come home till the sun was shining bright

I have to go so far to get my hambone boiled

I have to go so far gal to get my hambone boiled

These Atlanta women going to let my hambone spoil

I have done more for you than your daddy ever done

I gave more for you gal than your daddy ever done

I give you my jelly he ain't give you none

When you see two women always running hand in hand

When you see two women always running hand in hand

You can bet your bottom dollar

One's got the other one's man

I'm going to the river get me a tango rocking chair

I'm going to the river get me a tango rocking chair

And If the blues overtake me

Going to rock on away from here