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18 Sep 00 - 09:05 AM (#299847) Subject: Sometimes I feel like a motherless child From: Mikey joe anyone got the words of the song that begins... sometimes I feel like a motherless child (x3) went to see Dylan last night, and got this ringing in my head |
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18 Sep 00 - 09:12 AM (#299855) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sometimes I feel like a motherless c From: A Wandering Minstrel wow..Havent heard this since Richie Havens at Woodstock!!! Its something like:
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (x3)
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone(x3) repeat ad lib or till the faceplate wears through!
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18 Sep 00 - 09:46 AM (#299876) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sometimes I feel like a motherless c From: Pene Azul You can get the lyrics here (click). Richie Havens' version was part of improv to extend his time until more performers arrived. Jeff |
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18 Sep 00 - 09:49 AM (#299880) Subject: Lyr Add: SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD From: Pene Azul SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD (Harry Thacker Burleigh) 191? (1866-1949) |: Sometimes I feel Like a motherless child :| Sometimes I feel Like a motherless child |: A Long Way From Home :| True Believer |: A Long Way From Home :| |: Sometimes I feel Like a motherless child Sometimes I feel Like a motherless child :| |: Sometimes I wish I could fly, Like a bird up in the sky :| Sometimes I wish I could fly, Like a bird in the sky Little closer to home |: Motherless children Have a real hard time :| Motherless children Have a such a real hard time So long so long so long |: Sometimes I feel Like a motherless child :| Sometimes I feel Like a motherless child So far away |: Sometimes I feel Like freedom is near :| Sometimes I feel Like freedom is near But we're so far away |: Sometimes I feel Like it's close at hand :| Sometimes I feel Like the freedom is near But we're so far from home |: Sometimes, sometimes, | Sometimes |: So far, so far, so far, :| So far Mama from you, so far |
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19 Sep 00 - 03:21 AM (#300489) Subject: Lyr Add: SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD From: Escamillo This is one of my favorite songs. The version I have, adapted by J.Rosamonde Johnson, includes this verse:
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone,
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19 Sep 00 - 07:14 AM (#300528) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sometimes I feel like a motherless c From: GeorgeH Well, the Oyster Band recorded a song which starts with that line, but somehow I don't think that's the one you were looking for! G. Messages from multiple threads combined. Messages below are from a new thread. |
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19 Nov 01 - 05:56 PM (#595849) Subject: Lyr Add: SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD I Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, A long way from home, A long way from home. True believer, A long ways from home, A long ways from home. Ef this was judgement day, Ef this was judgement day, Ef this was judgement day, Ebry little soul would pray, Ebry little soul would pray. True believer, Ebry little soul would pray, Ebry little soul would pray. Sometimes I feel like I'm almos' gone, Sometimes I feel like I'm almos' gone, Sometimes I feel like I'm almos' gone, Way up in de Hebbenly lan', Way up in de Hebbenly lan'. True believer, Way up in de Hebbenly lan', Way up in de Hebbenly lan'. R. Nathaniel Dett, Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro (Hampton Inst.), 1927 revision. Harry Thacker Burleigh prepared this spiritual as an art song sometimes after 1911 (This arrangement has been posted by Pene Azul, threadid 25534, 18-Sep-00). He was a classically trained Black composer and baritone, much influenced by Antonin Dvorak. @religion @spiritual SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD II Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, (3 times) Lord, Lord, I know my time ain't long. (twice) Sometimes I feel like a feather in the air, (3 times) Lord, Lord, I know my time ain't long. (twice) Sometimes I feel like I haven't got a friend, etc. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, etc. Clifford Reed, Julia Griffin and Jonnie Mae Medlock, Florida State Prison, Raiford. John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip. Click on Links at top of page and go to Lomax Collection for notes and sound. @religion @spiritual |
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19 Nov 01 - 06:13 PM (#595861) Subject: Lyr Add: SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILE From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILE III Sometimes I feel like a motherless chile, (3 times) Far, far away from home, A long, long ways from home. Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone, (3 times) Far, far away from home, A long, long ways from home. Cho. Then I get down on my knees an' pray, Get down on my knees and pray. John W. Work, American Negro Songs and Spirituals, 1940, p. 146. @religion @spiritual
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19 Nov 01 - 08:27 PM (#595975) Subject: Lyr Add: MOTHERLESS CHILD From: masato sakurai The Lomax recording (mp3 of II above) is HERE. Alternate version (titled "My Time Ain't Long") is HERE.
The Burleigh version (words) posted by Pene Azul is HERE in the forum. We can see the 1918 sheet music HERE.
Though Jame J. Fuld says, "The first known appearance in print ... is in William E. Barton, Old Plantation Hymns, copyrighted Feb. 6, 1899, ..., under the title Motherless Child" (The Book of World-Famous Music, 4th ed., p. 514), it was preempted by the same version, also titled "Motherless Child," in the Barton article "Hymns of the Slave and the Freedman" (in New England Magazine, Jan. 1899; with music), which is reprinted in Bernard Katz, ed., The Social Implications of Early Negro Music in The United States (Arno/The New York Times, 1969, p. 91):
MOTHERLESS CHILD
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19 Nov 01 - 08:34 PM (#595978) Subject: RE: Add: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child From: masato sakurai Lines 7 and last should have been: Git down on my knees and pray!
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20 Nov 01 - 01:09 AM (#596145) Subject: RE: Add: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child From: Kaleea Mahalia sang: Sometimes I feel like an eagle on the wing . . . a long way from home . . . |
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20 Nov 01 - 02:47 AM (#596160) Subject: RE: Add: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child From: masato sakurai In the medley version with "Summertime", she sang "Sometimes I feel like a montherless child" (on Mahalia Jackson Vol. 2, Columbia/Legacy, and The Best of Mahalia Jackson, Legacy/Columbia). The Harmonizing Four version ("Motherless Child") is interesting (on Jubilation, vol. 2, and I Shall Not Be Moved), with the bass is the lead. ~Masato
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20 Nov 01 - 06:48 AM (#596211) Subject: RE: Add: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Lomax 1939 recordings of Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, #106, and My time ain't long, # 83, contain the same verses and use the same tune but with different singers in part. Alternate titles only. |
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11 Feb 02 - 07:27 PM (#647676) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sometimes I feel like a motherless c From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child: Added verses. If this was judgement day, If this was judgement day, If this was judgement day, Eb'ry little soul would pray, Eb'ry little soul would pray, True believer! Eb'ry little soul would pray, Eb'ry little soul would pray Dett, R. N., 1927, Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro, p. 172 with music. Refrain (chorus): Then I get down on my knees and pray, Then I get down on my knees and pray. J. W. Work, 1940, American Negro Songs and Spirituals, p. 146 with music. "True Believer" is omitted from this version. |
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25 Feb 02 - 05:10 PM (#657751) Subject: RE: Add: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child From: GUEST,skippy sometime I feel like an old bag lady, But where can I find one this time of night? |
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01 Jan 05 - 10:01 PM (#1369129) Subject: RE: Add: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child From: masato sakurai The earliest appearance of "Motherless Child" in The New England Magazine, Volume 25, Issue 5 (Jan 1899), p. 610 in online. |
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02 Jan 05 - 01:24 AM (#1369186) Subject: RE: Add: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child From: Q (Frank Staplin) The set of three articles by William E. Barton, "Old Plantation Hymns," New England Mag., Vol. 25 no. 4, Dec. 1898, pp. 443-455; "Hymns of the Slave and the Freedman," Vol. 25 No. 5, Jan. 1899, pp. 609-624; and "Recent Negro Melodies," Feb. 1899, Vol. 25 no. 6, pp. 707-719, are an important contribution to our knowledge of the songs sung by African-Americans in the last quarter of the 19th century (the author says most were collected in the South between 1880-1887). There are 54 "old plantation hymns," and in the 3rd article, songs of more recent origin. Music is given for the songs, and Barton comments on how they were sung. Thanks, Masato, for citing "Motherless Child," which called my attention to these on line articles, which are a real complement to the collections of Allen and Fenner. |
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02 Jan 05 - 01:25 AM (#1369188) Subject: RE: Add: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child From: Q (Frank Staplin) Masato, have you called our attention to these articles in a previous thread? |
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02 Jan 05 - 01:45 AM (#1369191) Subject: RE: Add: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child From: masato sakurai Yes, Q. Links are given in African-American Spirituals Permathread. |
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02 Jan 05 - 07:15 AM (#1369268) Subject: RE: Add: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child From: wysiwyg I must have been asleep-- never saw that site till now. If I'm not back in 60 days, send a search party! :~) ~Susan |
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21 Sep 05 - 01:42 AM (#1567423) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child From: GUEST hi I wanna know who sing that same song but its a woman i dont know who can you tell me please fast thx bye its a good song |
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28 Dec 06 - 04:55 PM (#1920778) Subject: Lyr Add: THE MOURNING DOVE (spiritual) From: Q (Frank Staplin) 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. |
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29 Dec 06 - 03:44 PM (#1921500) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child From: Q (Frank Staplin) Has anyone found a more recent printing with the title or verse: "Mo(u)rning Dove"? Emma Goldman, the anarchist, quoted it in one of her lectures. |
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08 Feb 07 - 12:35 PM (#1961297) Subject: Add: Vid: Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child From: Azizi YouTube video clip of a "Jazz fusion of Afghan traditional song from Herat and the spiritual Motherless Child as performed by Ghulam Hossein and Ensemble Kabul and American Voices quartet featuring Mike Del Ferro Trio and CoCo York" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_eMVqJ9Dd8 Added July 26, 2006; From americanvoices |