Mother’s Children Have a Hard Time

Name: Mother’s Children Have a Hard Time
Duration: 4 min 42 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
1.5	Mother’s Children Have a Hard Time	4:42	The Blind Boys of Alabama	God Don’t Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2016-02-26	Alligator (Chicago blues, aka Alligator Records)	ALCD 4968
1.5	Mother’s Children Have a Hard Time	4:42	Blind Boys of Alabama	God Don’t Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2016-02-26	Alligator (Chicago blues, aka Alligator Records)	ALCD 4968
1.5	Mother’s Children Have a Hard Time	4:42	The Blind Boys of Alabama	God Don’t Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson (Kickstarter version)	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	XW2016	[no label] (Special purpose label – white labels, self-published releases and other “no label” releases)

recording of:	Mother's Children Have a Hard Time

writer:	[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:	Blind Willie Johnson

later versions:	Motherless Children (Bob Dylan trad. arr.) Motherless Children (Son House trad. arr.) Motherless Children (Eric Clapton trad. arr.) Motherless Children (A.P. Carter trad. arr.) Motherless Children (Rosanne Cash trad. arr.)