Lyr Req: Motherless Child Blues (Elvie Thomas)

Subject: Lyr Req: Motherless Child Blues
From: luna (inactive)
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 10:47 AM

I think it's Elvie Thomas. Great song, but a few lyrics escape me. Thanks in advance.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Lyr Req: Motherless Child Blu
From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 10:58 AM

Do you mean this one?

Subject: Lyr Add: MOTHERLESS CHILD BLUES
From: masato sakurai
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 11:22 AM

MOTHERLESS CHILD BLUES
(Elvie Thomas, 1930)

My mother told me : just before she died
Oh daughter daughter : please don't be like me
To fall in love : with every man you see
But I did not listen : to what my mother said
That's the reason why : I'm sitting here in Hattiesburg
Baby now she's dead : and six feet in the ground
And I'm her child : and I'm drifting around
Do you remember the day : baby you drove me from your door
Go away from here woman : and don't come here no more
I walked away : and I wrang my hands and cried
Didn't have no blues : I couldn't be satisfied

(Michael Taft, Blues Lyric Poetry: An Anthology, Garland, 1983, p. 267)

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Lyr Req: Motherless Child Blu
From: luna (inactive)
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 12:13 PM

Wow..thanks so much Masato, I tried to send you a message but it didn't work. I love that song and I'm glad to have the lyrics. iris

Subject: Lyr Add: MOTHERLESS CHILD BLUES
From: masato sakurai
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 11:12 PM

Transcription as sung:

MOTHERLESS CHILD BLUES

My mother told me just before she died
My mother told me just before she died
My mother told me just before she died
My mother told me just before she died

Oh daughter daughter please don't be like me
Oh daughter daughter please don't be like me
Oh daughter daughter please don't be like me
To fall in love with every man you see

But I did not listen to what my mother said
But I did not listen to what my mother said
But I did not listen to what my mother said
That's the reason why I'm sitting here in Hattiesburg

But I did not listen to what my mother said
But I did not listen to what my mother said
But I did not listen to what my mother said
And I'm her child and I'm drifting 'round

Do you remember the day, baby, you drove me from your door
Do you remember the day, baby, you drove me from your door
Do you remember the day, baby, you drove me from your door
Go away from here woman and don't come here no more

I walked away and I wrang my hands and cried
I walked away and I wrang my hands and cried
I walked away and I wrang my hands and cried
Didn't have no blues I couldn't be satisfied

(Eric Sackheim, The Blues Line, 1969; Ecco, 1993, p. 38)

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sometimes I feel like a motherless ch
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 05:31 PM

I am looking for a recording of "sometimes I feel like a motherless child"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Motherless Child Blues (Elvie Thomas)
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 08:25 AM

Guest try Richie Havens on the Woodstock soundtrack

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