Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

SATB divisi choir, unaccompanied
Negro spiritual

Commissioned by Waukee High School, Jeff Knutson, conductor, and Northwest High School (Waukee), Jack Daubitz, conductor

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child,
A long ways from home.

Sometimes I feel like a fatherless child,
A long ways from home.

Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone,
A long ways from home.

This little light of mine…