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 was shining bright
 I had to go so far down, to get my ham bones boiled
 Had to go so far down, to get my ham bones boiled
 Well, he's had a lotta women, gonna let my ham bones burn
 Well, I did more for you now, than your daddy ever done
 
 Well, I did more for you now, than your daddy ever done
 
 Well, I give you my jewelry, he ain't give you none
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 And 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 got the other one's man
 
 Lord, I'm going to the river, get me a tangled rocking chair
 I'm going to the river, get me a tangled rocking chair
 
 And if the blues overtake me, gonna rock away from here