Hymns of Truth and Light ‎#480

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

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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