[ti:Mother's Children Have a Hard Time]
[ar:Blind Willie Johnson]
[al:The Essential Blind Willie Johnson]
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[00:00.00]Mother's Children Have a Hard Time - Blind Willie Johnson
[00:10.13]Well well well ah
[00:22.87]A motherless children have a hard time
[00:29.29]Motherless children have a hard time mother's dead
[00:34.54]They'll not have anywhere to go
[00:37.34]Wanderin' around from door to door
[00:40.96]Have a hard time
[00:44.88]Nobody on earth can take a mother's place when
[00:49.23]When mother is dead Lord
[00:51.76]Nobody on earth takes mother's place when mother's dead
[00:56.73]Nobody on earth takes mother's place
[00:59.62]When you were startin' paved the way
[01:02.24]Nobody treats you like mother will when
[01:07.47]Your wife or husband may be good to you
[01:11.62]When mother is dead Lord
[01:14.35]They'll be good to you mother's dead
[01:18.47]Wife or husband may be good to you
[01:20.83]But better than nothing has proved untrue
[01:23.78]Nobody treats you like mother will when
[01:27.44]When mother is dead Lord
[01:33.66]Lord Lord Lord
[01:39.34]Yeah well ah
[01:52.05]Well some people say that sister will do
[01:56.19]When mother is dead
[01:58.68]That sister will do when mother's dead
[02:03.01]Some people say that sister will do
[02:05.17]But as soon as she's married
[02:06.59]She turn her back on you
[02:08.31]Nobody treats you like mother will
[02:13.29]And father will do the best he can
[02:17.87]When mother is dead Lord
[02:20.28]Well the best he can when mother is dead
[02:24.58]Father will do the best he can
[02:27.26]So many things a father can't understand
[02:29.97]Nobody treats you like mother will
[02:35.19]A motherless children have a hard time
[02:39.59]When mother is dead Lord
[02:41.93]Motherless children have a hard time mother's dead
[02:47.29]They'll not have anywhere to go
[02:50.21]Wanderin' around from door to door
[02:53.53]Have a hard time