Motherless Children by Rosanne Cash
Key: EmEm | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Intro Em (Original Key is capo on 3RD)
 
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Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone
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Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone
 
Motherless children have a hard time
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There's all that weeping and all that crying
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Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone
 
 
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Father will do the best he can when the mother is gone
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Father will do the best he can when the mother is gone Father will do the best he can
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But there's so many things he just don't understand
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Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone
 
 
Break – Em-C-Em-C-D-A-C-D-Em
 
 
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People say a sister will do when the mother is gone
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People say a sister will do when the mother is gone
 
People say a sister will do
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But she'll get married, turn her back on you
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Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone
 
 
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Friends will treat you like your mother will when your mother is gone
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Friends will treat you like your mother will when your mother is gone
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Friends will tell you what to do - Then they'll turn their back on you
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Motherless children have a hard time when their mother is gone ..... repeat break