Key: Eb major
Verse 1
mighty hard time
When Mama's gone, she's gone
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Motherless child has it hard
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When Mama's gone,
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Lord, she's gone
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There in a run, run from door to door
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Lord, nowhere to go
A motherless child sure has it hard
When mama's gone,
Lord, she's gone
Chilling a motherless child
really has it hard
When mama's gone, Lord, mother's gone
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A motherless child really has it hard
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Oh, they will run,
A mother's child sure has it hard
when mama's gone.
Lord, what a pity.
Didn't they promise,
those helpless children,
when Mama was dying,
Lord, so was dying.
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They said, will treat your children
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Lord, in her grave,
Even they drove those helpless children
away from their door
Lord, have mercy
A mother's child sure has it hard
When mamma's gone, Lord,
and mamma's gone
Oh, they will run, run from door to door,
Lord, nowhere to go.
And Molly's child sure has it hard
when Mama's gone.
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