Lyr. Add: DE MO'NIN' DOVE

1.
Sometime I feel like a mo'nin' dove,
Sometime I feel like a mo'nin' dove,
Sometime I feel like a mo'nin' dove,
Feel like a mo'nin' dove, Feel like a mo'nin' dove.
2.
Sometime I feel like a yeagle een de yeah,
Sometime I feel like a yeagle een de yeah,
Sometime I feel like a yeagle een de yeah,
Feel like a yeagle, feel like a yeagle een de yeah.
3.
Sometime I feel like a muddahless chile, etc.
4.
Sometime I wish dat I nebbah been bawned, etc.

With score.
Marion Alexander Haskell, "Negro 'Spirituals,'" 1899, August, "The Century Magazine," vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 579-581.
Collected in Beaufort County, South Carolina.
The author says, "After prayer and exhortation a voice would raise the sweet old melody of "De Mo'nin' Dove," and the first verse would wail through the dark woods slowly, softly, and sadly. Then, with a quickening of tempo and a ring of triumph as the eagle in his flight crossed their spiritual vision, they sang: "Sometime I feel like a yeagle een de yeah." Again with the pathos which so largely makes the beautty of the Negro voice, "Sometime I feel like a muddahless chile," etc."

This spiritual seems to be antecedent to "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child."
Mahalia Jackson included "Sometimes I feel like an eagle in the air" in her singing of "Motherless Child," but it is absent from most versions currently printed and sung, and some of the meaning of "The Morning Dove" is lost.
Not listed in the Cleveland Index.