Mother's Blues (Little Children Blues) chords by Lead Belly
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Intro 1
(G minor) (G major) (G minor) (G major) (C major) (G major)
Verse 1
(spoken: These blues, little chil (C major)
dren made about somebody that's gone away (G major)
And that's sad,
and that gives you the blues)
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Verse 2
As (G major) (G minor) I went (G major) down to the freight (G minor) (G major) depot
That train (C major) come a- rollin' (A minor) (C major) by (G major)
I waved my (C major) hand at my
mama that I loved (G major)
Verse 3
Goin' down that railroad track
(G major)
She's gone, she's gone,
she's (G minor) gone, she's (G major) gone
And no cry (C major) in' won't
bring her back (G major)
She's the only (C major) mother that
I ever did love (G major)
Goin' (G minor) down (G major) that railroad track
Verse 4
(G major) I went down to the freight (G minor) de (G major) pot
And looked (C major) up on the sign (G major) (C major)
She's the only mother that I (G major)
ever did love, in this world (G minor)
I (G major) was hanging my head and
Interlude 1
cryin'
(G major) (B minor) (G major) (C major)
(G major) (C major) (G major)
Verse 5
Twas fare (G major) you well, fare (G minor) you (G major) well
And she's (C major) gone, she's gone,
she's gone (G major)
She's gone (C major) down that lonesome rail (G major) road,
this track
And she left me to weep
Outro 1
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(G major) (C major) (G major)
Mother's Blues (Little Children Blues)
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