Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

from American Negro Spirituals by J. W. Johnson, J. R. Johnson (PD)

(Give Me Jesus)

Words & Music: Spiritual/Jubilee Songs of Fisk University (PD)

(Give Me Jesus - Verse 1)

In the morning when I rise,

in the morning when I rise,

in the morning when I rise,

give me Jesus.

Verse 1

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

But, I’m a true believer

I’m a true, a true believer

But, I’m a long ways from home

A long ways, a long ways from home

Verse 2

Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone

Sometimes I feel like I can’t go on

Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone

Way up to my heavenly land

Way up to my heavenly land

But, I’m a true believer

I’m a true, a true believer

But, I’m a long ways from home

A long ways, a long ways from home