**Texte selon William E. Barton, D.D., 1899 (§ 1)**
O Sometimes I feel like a m
otherless ch
ild
Somet
imes I feel like a mo
therless child, O my Lord
Sometimes I feel like a mot
herless chil
d
Den I gi´down in my kn
ees and pra
y, pray
Gi´down on my kn
ees and pra
y.
Texte selon J. W. Johnson et J. R. Johnson, 1926
(chanté notamment par Louis Armstrong)
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 heab´nly land
Way up in de heab´nly land
True believer
Way up in de heab´nly land
Way up in de heab´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
Texte selon Harry Thacker Burleigh (1918)
|: Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child:|
|: Sometimes I wish I could fly,
Like a bird up in the sky:|
Sometimes I wish I could fly,
Like a bird in the sky
Little closer to home
|: Motherless children
Have a real hard time:|
Motherless children
Have a such a real hard time
So long so long so long
|: Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child:|
Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child
So far away
|: Sometimes I feel
Like freedom is near:|
Sometimes I feel
Like freedom is near
But we´re so far away
|: Sometimes I feel
Like it´s close at hand:|
Sometimes I feel
Like the freedom is near
But we´re so far from home
|: Sometimes, sometimes, |
Sometimes
|: So far, so far, so far,:|
So far Mama from you, so far