from « American Negro Spirituals»
by J. W. Johnson, J. R. Johnson, 1926
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 heav’nly land
Way up in de heav’nly land
True believer
Way up in de heav’nly land
Way up in de heav’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
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My soul, which is saved, heathy and happy, and my spirit, which is
unquenchable, reside in a earthly body that the Dr. says has cancer. So in
a few weeks ...
Taos, New Mexico
