2003

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

A Journey Beyond Time: American Songbook II Song Collection

"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" is the last song of George Crumb's A Journey Beyond Time: American Songbook II (2003). The audio recording provided features Thomas Hampson, baritone, and members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The recording is from a live performance at Alice Tully Hall (New York City) on April 29, 2011 and has been used with permission.

Text

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Traditional African American Spiritual
Collected by John Rosamond Johnson & James Weldon Johnson

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

I wish I could fly like a bird in the sky
I sometimes wish I could fly like a bird in the sky
I wish I could fly like a bird in the sky
A long way from home

Motherless children have a hard time
Motherless children have a hard time
Motherless children have a hard time
A long way from home

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child…

Audio

“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” (from “A Journey Beyond Time: American Songbook II”)

Thomas Hampson & members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center6:45

George Crumb

Composer

Traditional

Poet(s)/Writer(s)

2011

Date

Alice Tully Hall

Location

Sheet Music

A Journey Beyond Time

George Crumb

1. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
2. "Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho"
3. "Steal Away"
4. "Oh, a-Rock-a My Soul"
5. The Pregnant Earth: A Psalm for Noontide (Instrumental Interlude)
6. "Sit Down, Sister"
7. "Nobody Knows de Trouble I See"
8. "Go Down, Moses"
9. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"

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