If I mistreat you girl, I sure don't mean no harm If I mistreat you girl, I sure don't mean no harm Well, I'm a motherless child, I don't know right from wrong Please tell me pretty mama, honey where'd you stay last night? Please tell me pretty mama, honey where'd you stay last night? Well, you didn't come home 'till the sun was shining bright I had to go so far down, to get my ham bones boiled Had to go so far down, to get my ham bones boiled Well, he's had a lotta women, gonna let my ham bones burn Well, I did more for you now, than your daddy ever done Well, I did more for you now, than your daddy ever done Well, I give you my jewelry, he ain't give you none And when you see two women, always running hand in hand When you see two women, always running hand in hand You can bet your bottom dollar, one got the other one's man Lord, I'm going to the river, get me a tangled rocking chair I'm going to the river, get me a tangled rocking chair And if the blues overtake me, gonna rock away from here

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child A long long way from home A long long way from home Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone And I know my time's not long I know that my time, it's not long Sometimes I feel like I'm heaven bound Sometimes I feel like I'm heaven bound Sometimes I feel like I'm heaven bound And I wear a golden crown I wear a golden crown Sometimes I feel like my soul is on fire Sometimes I feel like my soul is on fire Sometimes I feel like my soul is on fire And I'm about to die And I'm about to die I'm about to die I'm about to die I'm about to die I'm about to die I'm about to die I ain't got nobody to love me I ain't got nobody to hold me I ain't got nobody to squeeze me I'm just a motherless child I'm just a motherless child

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child So far from home This was life and this was safer All was strange and always stranger I laid awake but so much later I'm never safe from all this danger The demon's eyes and demon satyr I was bait but what would bait her? Don't know my needs, don't know my ways so I hide my face, no way to face her This was loss, this was name This was my truth, this was no game This was not hope, this was not sane And from these broken places made That was loss and this was later I wanted less but nothing greater I couldn't leave, I couldn't stay Like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child So far from home This was loss and this was later Always hate but never hate her I laid in wait but so much later And never safe from all this danger The demon's eyes, the demon satyr I was bait, but what would bait her Don't know my needs, don't know my ways so I hide my face, no way to face her This was loss, this was name This was my truth, this was no game This was not hope, this was not sane And from these broken places made That was loss and this was later I wanted less but nothing greater I couldn't leave, I couldn't stay Like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child So far from home So far from home

Sometimes I'm exhausted and driven, Lord Sometimes I don't know where to go My mother and father won't own me So I'll try to make heaven my home Talking about a child that do love Jesus Here is one, here is one You're talking about a child that do love Jesus Here is one Talking about a child that do love Jesus Talking about a child that do love Jesus Here is one, here is one My mother and father don't own me I'll try to make Heaven my home

Your like a vampire, in your agency Taking blood for your infancy But hey stay away Away from me All I wanted was to be free Not from god but from the maze you see Let me roam around these streets In the night Which you're plagued to see Let me roam until I'm free Late at night It's just god and I Try to divide the way we survive It's not unholy to live by moonlight It's just a path with less light Even monsters have their pride So take your time, take your time at night You're like a vampire when you sing to me About all the things you need from me Is it money does it bleed from these Cuts you made, made with your teeth Is it fame, do you want a name Tell me Something strange, your a little bit vain, how am I to stay sane It's not cheap,to stay in your lane, the price is steep to avoid the pain Late at night It's just god and I Try to divide the way we survive It's not unholy to live by moonlight It's just a path with less light Even monsters have their pride So take your time, take your time at night