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
Crossroads
- Bernard Jenkins
- Tell The Truth
- Comin’ Home
- Sleeping In The Ground
- Can’t Find My Way Home
- Presence Of The Lord
- Badge
- White Room
- Anyone For Tennis
- Tales Of Brave Ulysses
- Sunshine Of Your Love
- Strange Brew
- Lawdy Mama
- Spoonful
- I Feel Free
- Wrapping Paper
- Roll It Over
- Mean Old World
- Crossroads (live at Winterland)
- Steppin’ Out
- Lonely Years
- Wanna Make Love To You
- Too Bad
- Heaven Is One Step Away
- Further On Up The Road
- Someone Like You
- Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
- Whatcha Gonna Do
- I Found A Love
- Ain’t That Lovin’ You
- One More Chance
- Evil
- Got To Get Better In A Little While
- Have You Ever Loved A Woman
- Ramblin’ on My Mind
- All Your Love
- Mean Old Frisco
- Double Trouble
- Hello Old Friend
- Sign Language
- Let It Grow
- I Shot the Sheriff
- The Sky Is Crying
- Better Make It Through Today
- Motherless Children
- Let It Rain
- Blues Power
- After Midnight
- Wonderful Tonight
- Lay Down Sally
- Layla
- If I Don’t Be There By Morning
- Promises
- Lonely Years
- For Your Love
- I Ain’t Got You
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- A Certain Girl
- I Wish You Would
- Baby What’s Wrong
- Key To The Highway
- (When Things Go Wrong) It Hurts Me Too
- Miss You
- Honey In Your Hips
- Boom Boom
- She’s Waiting
- The Shape You’re In
- I Can’t Stand It
- Cocaine
- 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