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Artist: Barbecue Bob
Canonical path: /barbecue-bob/motherless-chile-blues
Related lyric paths: 6
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Motherless Chile Blues
Read Motherless Chile Blues lyrics by Barbecue Bob on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Motherless Chile Blues
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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
You didn't come home: Till the sun was shining bright
I have to go so far: To get my hambone boiled
These atlanta women: Going to let my hambone spoil
I done done more for you: 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
You can bet your bottom dollar: One's got the other
One's man
I'm going to the river: Get me a *dang* old rocking
Chair
If the blues overtake me: Going to rock on away from
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Barbecue Bob performs "Motherless Chile Blues", and this lyric page sits inside the Barbecue Bob catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to 'Fo Day Creep and Barbecue Blues with a short reason for opening each page next.
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