| Motherless children have a hard time
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| When their mother is gone
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| Motherless children have a hard time
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| When their mother is gone
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| Motherless children have a very hard time
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| All the weepin', all that cryin'
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| Motherless children have a hard time
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| When their mother is gone
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| People say a sister will do
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| When the mother is gone
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| People say a sister will do
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| When the mother is gone
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| People say a sister will do
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| She’ll get married, turn her back on you
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| Motherless children have a hard time
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| When their mother is gone
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| Father do the best he can
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| When the mother is gone
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| Father do the best he can
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| When the mother is gone
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| Father do the best he can
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| But there’s so many things he just don’t understand
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| Motherless children have a hard time
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| When their mother is gone
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| I was lookin' for some place to plead my case
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| And I’m standing here all alone
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| I was framed, the times they have change
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| And I don’t know where I’m goin'
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| Motherless children have a hard time
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| All that weepin', all that cryin'
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| Motherless children have a hard time
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| When their mother is gone |