Sometimes I Feel Like an Motherless Child, or simply Motherless Child, is a song of the spiritual tradition.
Singing dates back to the age of slavery in the United States, when it was common practice to sell slaves' children. A Fisk Jubilee Singers first performance of the song dates back to the 1870s. Like many traditional songs, it has several versions and many covers have been recorded.
The song is a clear expression of pain and despair as it can convey the hope of a child who has been torn from his parents. According to an interpretation, the repeated repetition of the word "sometimes" in the song suggests the idea of hope, confirmed by the last "sometimes" "I do not feel like an orphaned child." >
Although lamentable words can be literally interpreted, they are to be understood as metaphors. The "motherless child" can be a separate slave from the African motherland who wants to return, a slave who suffers the distance from his land.
But the song also represents the universal state of mind of every man in his short life on this earth he perceives as exile from his true homeland, that is heaven. The true believer - as say the song's words - feels the way of life long before returning to the Father's house and sometimes has moments of acute nostalgia like an orphaned child who lost his mother. Notemodify wikitesto Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto
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