Motherless Child - Biff Scarborough

Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child A long way from home A long way from my home Believe me, Believe me, Believe me, Believe me Believe me, Believe me, Believe me, Believe me A long way from my home Sometimes I feel like my hopes are in vain (Oh yeah) Sometimes I feel like my hopes are in vain (Baby) Sometimes I feel like my hopes are in vain No way to get home (No No) No way to get home Believe me, Believe me, Believe me, Believe me Believe me, Believe me, Believe me, Believe me No way to get home Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child (Yeah) Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child (Won't someone help me now) Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone A long way from home A long way from my home Believe me, Believe me, Believe me, Believe me Believe me, Believe me, Believe me, Believe me A long way from my home Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child (Tell me) Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child A long way from home A long way from my home Believe me, Believe me, Believe me, Believe me Believe me, Believe me, Believe me, Believe me A long way from my home Believe me, Believe me, Believe me, Believe me A long way from my home Believe me, Believe me, Believe me, Believe me A long way from my home

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

Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Remember me to one who lives there For he once was a true love of mine Tell him to make me a cambric shirt Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Without any seam nor needlework And then he'll be a true love of mine Tell him to find me an acre of land Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Between the salt water and sea strands Then he'll be a true love of mine Tell him to reap it with a sickle of leather Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme And gather it all in a bunch of heather And then he'll be a true love of mine Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Remember me to the one who lives there For once he was a true love of mine

Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Remember me to one who lives there. He once was a true love of mine. Tell him to make me a cambric shirt. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Without no seams nor needle work. Then he'll be a true love of mine. Tell him to find me an acre of land. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Between salt water and the sea strand. Then he'll be a true love of mine. Are you going to Scarborough fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Remember me to one who lives there. He once was a true love of mine.

Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Remember me to one who lives there. He once was a true love of mine. Tell him to make me a cambric shirt. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Without no seam, nor needlework. Then he'll be a true love of mine. Tell him to buy me an acre of land. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Between salt water and the sea strand. Then he'll be a true love of mine. Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Remember me to one who lives there. He once was a true love of mine.

Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Remember me to one who lives there She once was a true love of mine Tell her to make me a cambric shirt Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Without no seams nor needlework Then she'll be a true love of mine Tell her to find me an acre of land Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Between salt water and the sea sand Then she'll be a true love of mine Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme And gather it all in a bunch of heather Then she'll be a true love of mine Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme