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Thread #83170   Message #1526885
Posted By: Azizi
24-Jul-05 - 07:40 AM
Thread Name: 'Mother' in Spirituals & Blues
Subject: RE: 'Mother' in Spirituals & Blues
Yes, Le Scaramouche,

I had planned to start out with the Spiritual "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child".

Here is a link to a Mudcat thread on Motherless Child

This version found HERE and attributed to Harry Thacker Burleigh, 191? (1866-1949) may be in that thread:

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