Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
Folklore
Ton : A
(**Texte selon William E. Barton, D.D., 1899 (§ 1)**)
AmO Sometimes I feel like a mDmotherless chAmild
SometDmimes I feel like a moAmtherless child, O my Lord
AmSometimes I feel like a motDmherless chilAmd
Den I gi'down in my knEees and praAmy, prayBm
AmGi'down on my knEees and praAmy.
(Texte selon J. W. Johnson et J. R. Johnson, 1926)
(chanté notamment par Louis Armstrong)
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
A long ways from home
A long ways from home
True believer
A long ways from home
Along 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
Way up in de heab'nly land
Way up in de heab'nly land
True believer
Way up in de heab'nly land
Way up in de heab'nly land
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
A long ways from home
There's praying everywhere
(Texte selon Harry Thacker Burleigh (1918))
|: 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