Lyrics also used in BBQ BOB song "MOTHERLESS CHILE BLUES"

If I mistreat you, girl, sho' don't mean no harm. REPEAT
I'm a motherless chile, and I don't know right from wrong.

Please tell me, pretty mama, honey, where'd you stay last night? REPEAT
You didn't come home till the sun was shinin' bright.

I had to go so far, girl, just to get my hambone boiled. REPEAT
These Alabama women gonna let my hambone spoil.

I did more for you, girl, than your daddy ever done. REPEAT
I gave you my jelly; he ain't give you none.

If you see two women always riding hand in hand, REPEAT
Bet your bottom dollar one got the other one's man.

I'm going to the river, get me a tangled rockin' chair. REPEAT
If these blues overtake me, gonna rock away from here.

Pretty standard lyrics but great tune 12-string tuned to D capoed to 4th fret (6th if you tune your 12-string a step low as is often recommended) lush percussive open sound. GREAT FUN

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 6-Jul-02.