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Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child", also sung as "Motherless Child", is a traditional spiritual that goes back to the era of slavery in the United States. One early performance was by the Fisk Jubilee Singers in the 1870s. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor made it the first movement of his Trio in E minor in 1893, and Paul Robeson recorded it several times from 1926 onwards.
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- APA
- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sometimes-i-feel-like-a-motherless-child
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- “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sometimes-i-feel-like-a-motherless-child. Accessed .
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- The Epoch Institute. “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sometimes-i-feel-like-a-motherless-child.
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sometimes-i-feel-like-a-motherless-child (Accessed: ).
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