Text:Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Tune:WHEATLEY

480. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

Text Information
First Line: Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Title: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Meter: 10 10 10.5 5
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Topic: Human Experience: Fears and Failures; Human Experience: Healing and Forgiveness; Pilgrimage
Source: Traditional spiritual
Tune Information
Name: WHEATLEY
Meter: 10 10 10.5 5
Key: f minor
Source: Traditional spiritual; Harm. FCC, 1997
Copyright: Harm. © 1998 FCC Houston TX


Text Information:

This spiritual is an expression of feelings of alienation and despair, akin to the 'complaints' found in a number of psalms. Singer Marian Anderson brought it to public popularity


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