Songwriter: Traditional
Producer: Tom Dowd
[Verse 1]
Motherless children have a hard time when mother is dead, lord
Motherless children have a hard time when mother is dead, lord
They don't have anywhere to go
Wandering around from door to door
[Chorus]
Nobody treats you like a mother will when your mother is dead, lord
[Verse 2]
Father will do the best he can when your mother is dead, lord
Father will do the best he can when your mother is dead, lord
Father will do the best he can
So many things a father can't understand
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Sister will do the best she can when your mother is dead, lord
Sister will do the best she can when your mother is dead, lord
Sister will do the best she can
So many things a sister can't understand
[Chorus]
[Outro]
When your mother is dead, when your mother is dead
When your mother is dead, Lord, when your mother is dead
Motherless children have a hard time when mother is dead, lord
Motherless children have a hard time when mother is dead, lord
They don't have anywhere to go
Wandering around from door to door
[Chorus]
Nobody treats you like a mother will when your mother is dead, lord
[Verse 2]
Father will do the best he can when your mother is dead, lord
Father will do the best he can when your mother is dead, lord
Father will do the best he can
So many things a father can't understand
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Sister will do the best she can when your mother is dead, lord
Sister will do the best she can when your mother is dead, lord
Sister will do the best she can
So many things a sister can't understand
[Chorus]
[Outro]
When your mother is dead, when your mother is dead
When your mother is dead, Lord, when your mother is dead
461 Ocean Boulevard
- Motherless Children
- Walkin’ Down The Road
- Motherless Children (5.1 mix)
- Little Wing
- The Sky Is Crying / Have You Ever Loved A Woman / Ramblin’ On My Mind
- Get Ready (5.1 mix)
- Mainline Florida (5.1 mix)
- Willie and the Hand Jive (5.1 mix)
- Give Me Strength (5.1 mix)
- I Shot the Sheriff (5.1 mix)
- Please Be With Me (5.1 mix)
- Let It Grow (5.1 mix)
- Smile
- Meet Me (Down At The Bottom)
- Better Make It Through Today
- Willie And The Hand Jive
- Get Ready
- I Shot the Sheriff
- I Can’t Hold Out
- Please Be With Me
- Let It Grow
- Steady Rollin’ Man
- Mainline Florida
- Give Me Strength
- Badge
- Meet Me (Down at the Bottom) (out-take)
- 461 Ocean Boulevard (1974)
- Crossroads (1988)
- Tears In Heaven
- Cocaine
- Wonderful Tonight
- Layla (Acoustic Live)
- Change the World
- I Shot the Sheriff
- Stand and Deliver
- My Father’s Eyes
- Let It Rain
- Lay Down Sally
- Let It Grow
- Old Love
- Layla (unplugged)
- Promises
- Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out (Acoustic Live)
- Before You Accuse Me
- Have You Ever Loved A Woman
- Little Wing
- Magnolia
- Circus
- Crossroads
- It’s in the Way That You Use It
- Pretending
- Back Home