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(Sometimes I Feel Like a) Motherless Child

[ Roud 10072 ; Ballad Index LxU107 ; trad.]

Christine Collister sang Motherless Child in 2001 on her Topic CD An Equal Love.

Peter Bellamy sang another song also called Motherless Child in 1985 on his EFDSS album Second Wind and in 1999 on his anthology Wake the Vaulted Echoes.

Si Kahn’s Motherless Child on his 2007 CD Thanksgiving is a quite different song that he composed for his mother, Rosalind Kahn.

Lyrics

Christine Collister sings Motherless Child

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

Sometimes I wish I was a bird in the sky
Sometimes I wish I was a bird in the sky
Sometimes I wish I was a bird in the sky
Closer to home, closer to home

Sometimes I feel that the kingdom is near
Sometimes I feel that the kingdom is near
Sometimes I feel that the kingdom is near
But we’ve so far to go, go, go, we’ve so far to go

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, home, home, a long way from home