Motherless Child Blues

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 stay last night? Tell me, pretty mama, Lord, honey where you stay last night? You didn't come home 'til the sun was shining bright.

I have to go so far, to get my hambones boiled. I have to go so far, gal, to get my hambones boiled. These Atlanta women, won't let my hambones boiled.

I done done more for you, than your daddy ever done. I did more for you gal, than you daddy ever done. I give you my jelly, he ain't gives 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 tangled rocking chair. I'm going to the river, get me a tangled rocking chair. If the blues overtake me, I'm gonna rock away from there.