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Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child

from Bowling Green by Alice Gerrard & Mike Seeger

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Traditional. From a 1936 field recording by John Lomax of Annie May Jefferson and Ozella Jones at the State Farm, Raiford, Fl.

Recorded at a concert in Hakodate, Japan in 1970

lyrics

Sometimes I feel like a motherlesss child (3x)
Lord, I know my time ain't long
Lord, lord, I know my time ain't long.

Sometimes I feel like I have no friends (3x)
Lord, I know my time ain't long
Lord, lord, I know my time ain't long.

Sometimes I feel like I have no home (3x)
Lord, I know my time ain't long.

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from Bowling Green, released January 1, 2008
Unaccompanied vocal duet

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Alice Gerrard Durham, North Carolina

A singer and songwriter, Alice’s recordings with Hazel Dickens during the 1960s and ’70s influenced a generation of women musicians from Laurie Lewis to the Judds. Nominated for a Grammy in 2015, she was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Assoc. Hall of Fame in 2017. A documentary film about Alice, "You Gave Me a Song" premiered at the Full Frame Independent Film Festival in 2019. ... more

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