Motherless Children (The Gaslight Café, NYC) - Bob Dylan

Motherless children run a hard road when your mother is dead

Motherless children run a hard road when your mother is dead

Motherless children run a hard road a hard road a hard road

Motherless children run a hard road when your mother is dead

Your father will do the best he can

When your mother is dead

Your father will do the best he can

When your mother is dead

Your father will do the best he can

But he just does not understand

Motherless children run a hard road when your mother is dead

Now there's some people say your sister might do

When your mother is dead

Now there's some people say your sister might do

When your mother is dead

Some people say your sister will do soon as she married

Turn her back on you

Motherless children run a hard road when your mother is dead

You can dig my grave with a bloody spade when I'm dead

You can dig my grave with a bloody spade when I'm dead

You can dig my grave with a bloody spade

See that my digger gets well paid

Motherless children run a hard road when your mother is dead

Jesus won't be no mother to you when your mother is dead

Jesus won't be no mother to you when your mother is dead

Jesus won't be no mother to you

His trials and tribulations won't see you through

Motherless children run a hard road when your mother is dead