Motherless children have a hard time when your mother is gone

When she's gone on home, when your mother is gone

Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone

When she's gone on home, when mother is gone

Motherless children have a hard time

All that weeping and all that crying

Motherless children have a hard time when your mother is gone

When she's gone on home, when mother is gone

They don't have no place to go when mother is gone

When she's gone on home, when mother is gone

They don't have no place to go when mother is gone

When she's gone on home, when mother is gone

They don't have no place to go

Some got to go from door to door

Motherless children have a hard time when mother is gone

When she's gone on home, when mother is gone

Some people say that the sister will do when mother is gone

When she's gone on home, when mother is gone

Some people say that the sister will do when the mother is gone

When she's gone on home, when mother is gone

Some people say that the sister will do

She'll get married turn her back on you

Motherless children have a hard time when mother is gone

When she's gone on home, when mother is gone

Hush little baby now don't you cry cause your mother is gone

When she's gone on home, when your mother is gone

Hush little baby now don't you cry cause your mother is gone

When she's gone on home, when mother is gone

Hush little baby now don't you cry

You'll see your mother in the by and by

Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone

When she's gone on home when your mother is gone

Motherless children have a hard time when your mother is gone

When she's gone on home, when your mother is gone

Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone

When she's gone on home, when mother is gone

Motherless children have a hard time

All that weeping and all that crying

Motherless children have a hard time when your mother is gone

When she's gone on home, when mother is gone