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This article is about the blues song. For the Negro spiritual, see Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child. For another blues song, see Motherless Children.

"Motherless Child Blues" (or, in dialect, "Motherless Chile Blues") is the name of two distinct traditional blues songs.

They are different melodically and lyrically.

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One was first popularized by Robert "Barbecue Bob" Hicks, the other by Elvie Thomas.

"Motherless Child Blues" (Hicks)

The song recorded by Hicks in 1927 tells of the singer's lack of respect for women and disenchantment with them.

The song begins with the lyrics that give it its name:

If I mistreat you gal, I sure don't mean you no harm.

I'm a motherless child and I don't know right from wrong.^[1]

The other verses in the Hicks version are:

Please tell me pretty mama, honey where you stay last night?/Tell me, pretty mama, Lord, honey where you stay last night?/You didn't come home 'til the sun was shining b