Talk:Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

Lyrics

The article doesn't include the lyrics, but it includes an image which includes some surprising lyrics, not what I expected. Here is what I expected:

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, A long ways from home, a long ways from home.

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, A long ways from home, a long ways from home . . . Nyh (talk) 13:50, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Needs to be more objective

This does not read like an encyclopedic entry. It should state generally accepted facts. References to opinions should be authoritative and should be qualified as opinions of one or a group of people (perhaps moved to a separate section dealing with interpreations of the song). I believe Wikipedia prefers that links to such information be placed in the External Links section.

Sometimes I feel a bit confused

"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" is not the only spiritual based around the words "Sometimes I feel". I heard another one performed just the other day. I believe that at least one of the other such spirituals is actually called "Sometimes I Feel", and that a more common alternate name for this song is "Motherless Child". Sorry, I don't have any references on hand... Dfeuer 10:14, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Just to make things even more confusing, there is apparently another song Motherless Child as well. Dfeuer 10:15, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

I think the article on "Motherless Child" is about a song that I've always heard as "Motherless Children" (a la Mance Lipscomb for an early blues recording or The Carter Family for an early folk version). I don't think I know your other traditional "Sometimes I Feel" song. -MrFizyx 21:17, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, actually, "Motherless Children" is a very different song. It appears that Barbecue Bob first recorded his song as "Motherless Chile Blues" and the clip I heard and lyrics i found are entirely different. Anyway these are all common themes in several veins of the American folk processs. -MrFizyx 21:27, 30 May 2007 (UTC

Believe in the Feeling the Song Conveys

A stongly worded spiritual is a rare commodity. The feelings the words have when they reach you, if you accept them, are undeniably a lamentation, expressing the human drama of being lost in a strange place. To convey the feelings expressed in the music the artist asks you to participate by listening to the sound the of the song, both the words and music together. So much is said by a person with so very little hope left in the world, and that is the causality for our deeper inward meditation. You only have to open your ears to hear it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clickbump (talk • contribs) 07:14, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Laundry listing

This is a wonderful article: well written and informative. Maybe this article should be one of the rare exceptions. Normally it is not acceptable to list every cover of a song, ad nauseum. Just sayin... Rags (talk) 18:43, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Malia Jackson recording

On Columbia Records Bless This House album. 2601:602:400:AB0:40AF:D9F7:E379:977D (talk) 02:11, 30 October 2023 (UTC)