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Title: Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

Music: Traditional spiritual, arranged by Harry Thacker Burleigh (1866-1949)

Text: Traditional

Free at Art Song Central:

• PDF: Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
• Key: A Minor
• Range: E4 – E5
• Source: Individual song, ©1918 G. Ricordi & Co.

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Sometimes I feel like a motherless chile,
Sometimes I feel like a motherless chile,
Sometimes I feel like a motherless chile,
A long ways from home.

Sometimes I feel like I’m almos’ gone,
Sometimes I feel like I’m almos’ gone,
Sometimes I feel like I’m almos’ gone,
A long ways from home.

• Duke’s Digital Collection has color scans of the original publication of Sometimes I feel like a motherless child