Chords for Blind Boys Of Alabama - Mother’s Children Have a Hard Time

[Bm] _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D#] _ _ I'm Jenny Carter [N] of the Blind Boys of Alabama.
I'm the lead singer.
In case some of you don't
know the history [D#] of the Blind Boys, I'll give you a little preview of it.
Blind Boys were
students at the School for the Blind in Talladega, Alabama.
That's how we met up.
That's how
we started singing together.
We sang a male chorus.
We sang a mixed choir.
And from that,
the quartet came to be.
[D] And on June the 10th, [B] 1944, the Blind Boys started out professionally.
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_ _ [D#m] When [N] we were in school, there was a quartet that came on the radio every day called the
Golden Gate Quartet.
We would look forward to their program every day.
They would sing
Motherless Children, _ and that's how we got acclaimed with the song.
That's how we got
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_ _ that song in our repertoire. _
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[C#m] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [E] _
[A] _ _ [Em] _ _ [B] _ [E] _ _ _
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_ _ [F#m] _ [Bm] _ It [B] took me a while [E] _ _ to get going, _ _ [G#m] _ [A] _
to get used to the tune of [E] Motherless Children, _ _ _ [F#] [E] and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to
went to Mother's shows and Billy and I [N] recorded the song.
We traded voices.
He sang one and
I sang one.
Well, _ _ _ Father [F#] will [E] do [C#m] the best [F#] he [B] can [G] when mother [E] is gone.
[A] _ _
[E] _ _ [A] Yes, he [E] will.
He'll do what he can when mother [B] is gone. _
Mother is gone.
_ [E] He'll do _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] anything.
He just don't understand.
_ _ [E] Nobody treats [C#m] a blackened mother [F#] well [B] when the mother is [E] gone.
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_ [E] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [E] Yeah, [A] that sounds better [Gm] right there.
[E] _ _ Motherless children have a hard time when mother _ [B] gone.
_ _ _ _ _ Jason [Em] Isbell, a very nice gentleman, [F] produced [E] a record, played guitar.
[A] He played good guitar.
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_ [C] I [D] think that [E] got it.
Well, I hope, I hope, you know, when I listen to it, it brings [G] back, you know, motherless [B] children see a mighty hard time when mother is gone.
[A] You know, [E] a lot of these children of today, they [A] don't appreciate what [E] their mother or their father have done for them.
They don't appreciate, [C#m] you know, [F#] the sacrifice [B] that was made.
[E] _ [A] Mother _ is [E] gone.
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I think we got it.
[B] That might be it.
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_ [A] And then just fade away. _
[E] _ _ Keeps it like [C#m] Mother will.
[F#] Yeah.
[B] Mother [E] is gone.
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