Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
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"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (or simply "Motherless Child") is a traditional Negro spiritual. The song dates back to the era of slavery in the United States when it was common practice to sell children of slaves away from their parents. An early performance of the song dates back to the 1870s by the Fisk Jubilee Singers.
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Notable versions
- Darlene Love covered part of it for the first part of the Gospel Medley in the Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special (1968)
- Ike & Tina Turner covered it on their 1969 album Outta Season
- The Les Humphries Singers on their first album Rock My Soul in 1970
- Richie Havens used lyrical elements of this piece in an improvised song at Woodstock Festival in 1969 when he ran out of songs to play after being called back for multiple encores.
- Boney M. on their second album Love for sale (1977)
- Van Morrison on Poetic Champions Compose (1987), also on The Best of Van Morrison Volume Two (1993)
- Martin L. Gore, on Counterfeit e.p. (1989)
- Crime and the City Solution, on Paradise Discotheque (1990)
- Charlie Haden and Hank Jones on Steal Away: Spirituals, Hymns, And Folk Songs
- Hootie & the Blowfish, on Cracked Rear View (1994)
- Kevin Eubanks, on "Live at Bradley’s (1996, Blue Note)" (1994)
- Tom Jones (accompanied by Portishead) on Reload (1999)
- The daughter character, Keesha, sang this piece in the play I Can Do Bad All By Myself, written by Tyler Perry (1999)
- Under the name Lucky Pierre, Aidan Moffat used an operatic sample of the phrase "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child" on the track of the same name from his 2002 solo album Hypnogogia.
- John Legend on Solo Sessions Vol. 1: Live at the Knitting Factory (2005)
- Wishbone Ash on Clan Destiny (2006)
- Ghostface Killa in Ironman (album) (1996)
- Listening to the trumpet-played version of Wynton Marsalis you see that child... Track 14: Traditional Spiritual from Portrait of Wynton Marsalis, SONY Classical, 1989/92
- John Frusciante does a live, rather aggressive version at the Hollywood Moguls 3/28/97.
- Over the Rhine recorded a live version for Live from Nowhere: Volume Three (2007)
- Matthew Perryman Jones, on Swallow the Sea (2008)
- Beth Nielsen Chapman, the 2008 compilation album, Song of America
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