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Eric Clapton - Motherless Child
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If I mistreat you girl, I sure don't mean no harm.
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If I mistreat you girl, I sure don't mean no harm.
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Well I'm a motherless child, I don't know right from wrong.
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Please tell me pretty mama, honey where'd you stay last night?
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Please tell me pretty mama, honey where'd you stay last night?
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Well you didn't come home, till the sun was shining bright.
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I have to go so far gal, to get my ham bones boiled.
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I have to go so far gal, to get my ham bones boiled.
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Well these other lotta women, gonna let my ham bones burn.
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Now I did more for you gal, than your daddy ever done.
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Now I did more for you gal, than your daddy ever done.
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Well I give you my jelly, he ain't give you none.
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And when you see two women, always running hand in hand.
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And you see two women, always running hand in hand.
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You can bet your bottom dollar, one got the other one's man.
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Well I'm goin to the river, get me a tangled rocking chair.
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I'm goin to the river, get me a tangled rocking chair.
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And if the blues overtake me, gonna rock away from here.
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