Psalms for All Seasons ‎#88B

88B. Spiritual: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

1 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.

2 Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone.
Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone.
Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone,
a long ways from home, a long ways from home.

Text Information

• First Line: Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
• Title: Spiritual: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
• Publication Date: 2012
• Scripture:
  Psalm 88
• Topic: Affliction; Church Year: Good Friday; Darkness; Despair; Doubt; Friends; God's: Sorrow; God's: Wonders; God's: Anger; God's: Faithfulness; God's: Friendship; God's: Judgments; God's: Way; Grave; Lament: General; Lament: Illness; Life Stages: Death; Mercy; Questioning; Renewal; Salvation
• Source: Afro-American spiritual
• Notes: The stanzas of this spiritual may be used as a framing of the psalm or as a refrain for portions of the psalm. The reading of the psalm may be accompanied by a solo voice, ensemble, or congregation humming the melody.

Tune Information

• Name: MOTHERLESS CHILD
• Key: e minor
• Source: Afro-American spiritual