Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

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Sorrowful and contemplative, this well-known spiritual is newly arranged with shifting keys and a hauntingly chromatic accompaniment. Unison with opt. 2-part voices.

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Unison or 2-part treble chorus, piano. Duration: 3’00”

Part of Early American Songs, Set 2 (see below).

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(Treble Choir of the Honors Choirs of Southeast Minnesota, Bill Nelson conducting)

 

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Composer’s Notes

This arrangement is part of the set Early American Songs, Set 2. The other pieces in the set are also available separately: Little David, Play on Your Harp; and Down by the Riverside.

Text:

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 feel like I’m almost gone . . .

Mmm mmm . . .