The opener to my fave EC album. Enjoy it on my channel here: [ Ссылка ] Please solve his shirt mystery for me: what does it say under that tie?? I am not monetized on YT. Please save small channels by liking & subscribing 💖 (Lyrics & info below.)
Motherless children have a hard time when mother is dead, lord
Motherless children have a hard time when mother is dead, lord
They don't have anywhere to go
Wandering around from door to door
Nobody treats you like a mother will when your mother is dead, lord
Father will do the best he can when your mother is dead, lord
Father will do the best he can when your mother is dead, lord
Father will do the best he can
So many things a father can't understand
Nobody treats you like a mother will when your mother is dead, lord
Sister will do the best she can when your mother is dead, lord
Sister will do the best she can when your mother is dead, lord
Sister will do the best she can
So many things a sister can't understand
Nobody treats you like a mother will when your mother is dead, lord
When your mother is dead, when your mother is dead
When your mother is dead, Lord, when your mother is dead
Songwriter: Traditional (arranged by Eric Clapton, Carl Radle).
"Mother's Children Have a Hard Time", also known as "Motherless Children", is a gospel blues song recorded by Blind Willie Johnson in 1927.
[On July 20, 1974, Eric Clapton’s 461 Ocean Boulevard entered the Billboard album chart and on August 17 his creative and personal comeback was complete. The record moved to No.1 on that date, giving “Slowhand” his first chart-topping US LP. It went on to stay there for a full month.
The core 461 band was composed of players who were either already Clapton diehards or would become so, including Carl Radle (bass), Dick Sims (keyboards), George Terry (guitar), and Jamie Oldaker (drums). The album, produced by studio master Tom Dowd, also featured backing vocals and harmonica by a young woman called Marcy Levy, later to co-write “Lay Down Sally” and other songs with Clapton, before finding fame in the 1990s as Marcella Detroit in Shakespears Sister.
The house featured on the album’s cover was, indeed, 461 Ocean Boulevard, in the town of Golden Beach, Florida. Eric lived there while making the album.]
