So moving. Why don't people sing like this anymore? It seems people no longer want to be moved by music. They see it as something to distract you from reality rather than something that makes you think about and accept reality.
I had a mother, but I didn't have a mother. She was there physically, but was completely shut off from me emotionally, practically, and there was no sense of love, ever. I've felt like this all my life. This song makes me weep.
@@kerenkares6109 my mother's mother was treated like Cinderella by her mother, my great grandmother. Made to do all the cleaning of the house, slept on a mat in the cold basement, ate alone, didn't join in family outings, etc. I didn't know my grandmother very well, but I suspect her childhood warped her and made her abusive to my mother, and my mother continued the cycle down to me and my sisters. My mother clearly has mental illness, severe anxiety and some kind of paranoid delusion disorder that she firmly believes is reality no matter what anybody might tell her. With that kind of family history sometimes I wonder if I can ever recover, but I have to. I want a family, but I won't do to them what she did to me.
@Sherlock Holmes the best solution to this problem was to cut off all contact with her and move across the country to get away from her. Not all abusers can change and she certainly had no intention of changing. Your solution is to keep me in abuse. That is not acceptable to me. With a normal mother, that might work, but she is not a normal mother. The best thing I ever did for myself was to give up trying to win her love.
@Sherlock Holmes and I understand that you meant to help, but not all mothers love their children. Not all mothers are capable of feeling love. My mother is a deeply and permanently damaged person with no capability to love anybody or anything. If nothing had changed in the 70+ years she has been alive, I feel confident in saying that it is impossible for me to win her love. And that is not because I am unlovable, it is because she has no love to give. She cannot feel love. I feel sorry for her because of this. She has missed out on one of the greatest mysteries and beautiful joys of the human experience. She was warped before she could even fight back against her own abusers. But the fact remains that her heart is unreachable by any mortal human and to keep myself in her power would not help her and it would hurt me very much. Only God can reach her, it is not my responsibility and it is not possible for me. If I thought for a minute that it was, I would never have left.
No Bessie Griffin was not my mother. The Baptize church in Chicago Antioch missionary Baptist Church , had a radio show and everything was recorded onto LP”s . Rev Daniel sermons and choirs where a favorite in Chicago and Indiana.
In this song, I remember the pain of my childhood. I remember the day my mother beat me like I was her enemy. I remember the day I got a black eye. I remember when I ran away from her at home and hid. My knees would turn blue. Sometimes I'd hide my crying and go to school. She never recognized me. She never hugged me from the inside. She never knew my troubles. I've always woken up from my sleep saying dad. My mother never believed it when I got sick. My father would have waited with me at night when I was sick. My mother used to sleep. This song reminds me of the days my mother didn't remember, that I couldn't forget.
Yes, you were a motherless child. Your mother sounds like she was very troubled. Not your fault! My heart goes out to you. It’s behind you now and you will never have to go back to that place in your life. Courage to you, my friend.
With pain…just like rain, the rainbow will seep over and shine bright while the ground clears up and the green on the trees will brighten. With love, I’m saddened that you endured so much pain from someone with blind eyes and wide hands. You deserve love, and wide eyes with curious thoughts and hands softer than the clouds that give you touch of heaven. 🩷
I first heard this song after my mom passed away then learned that it was an old spiritual written by slaves about the seperation of families. One of the most hearfelt songs ever.
I have been singing this song since I was a little girl. My granny knew I felt it and loved that my heart was in it when I sung it! Now I realize my mother did not know how to be a mother and that taught me to be super mom! Thanks mom!
This song is about the African American experience being striped of a mother tongue, a motherland though slavery and racism. It is an expression of the African experience in America. But like all great songs it speaks to different human experiences. " a long way from home".
Wow the best version! My mom passed and now I’m passing with her same kidney disease. I was feeling alone and I started singing this song and looked it up. She is amazing! Thanks for posting
I'm a 42 year old woman who has a living mother who could really care less about me. I call or text her telling her i need to talk to her, but she'll either contact 3/4 days later or not at all. I had a father who committed suicide when I was 15 yrs old. I'm so misunderstood and tired of the hurt and pain. This song comforts me.
You will be alright, my Mom dies last year. She didn't love me not one bite but I tried my best to get her to love me. My siblings had her funderal on my birthday.
You know..the pain is real.. but do not despair! We have a great Father better then the best mother. God. Jesus Christ. He is full of love and pure guidance and help. He is innocent but all powerful. All kind of people try to make Him look all wrong, and yet, He died instead of you and wants to give you a new new new life and an eternal one also! I'm so glad I met Him. Love will prevail! Pure love, unaltered by sin will prevail!
My mother passed almost a month ago. She didn’t raise me and was not a part of my life in any real way, and because of her absence I convinced myself that I had all I needed and that I didn’t need her. Today at 41 years old I cried, because for the first time ever I am feeling the pain of her absence. And I am realizing for the first time that I do need her, and that I always did💔
This is what black pain sounds like; it's haunting, horrifying, yet beautiful. The pain exhibited in this woman's voice still fester in our communities in present day. In the 60's, it was a slow-haunting-melody full of humility and hope, but if that pain is ignored, it might transition to an unapologetic roar that will meet everyone at their front door.
He’s the one that says this is black pain. All races have extreme pain, not just black but for some reason we are supposed to feel sorry for only one race
This song speaks volumes. For me, it reflects the broken heart of a former foster child who found no mother who would love me. But the word says that though my mother and my father forsake me, God would take me up. Even though I am a mother now, there is a part of me that still longed for a mother.
Unbelievable! Incomparable to anything I have ever heard or experienced. What a voice, what emotion, what power. Chilling, haunting, indescribable. She certainly deserves to be better known than she is.
Just effortless power and clarity in her voice. This is my lament when I'm feeling lost in the world, lost on my way to "being", mourning my mother. It is my shower song, my connection to my ancestors that didn't/couldn't choose the sea. These aren't tears...they are salty prayers to my Devine.
I feel this way because although I have a mother and love her dearly I'm treated like a wishing well only needed when there's a need. only when strife arises and I stand up for her or the cause but any other time I'm forgotten and left behind. I'm in college I'm on the deans list, I'm independent and living according to my faith in Christ but it's never enough. the Lord is all I have to hold on to.
Ghostface brought me here. I'm a big hip hop fan and I really appreciate the fact that it has exposed me to so many artists that were before my time. This song is just... inexplicably powerful. What a voice.
aquariusmarika yes the mother is Africa. The song is about my ancestors and other black american ancestors being separated from their homeland and families
I always thought the "motherless child" was a reference to Jesus, who was a fatherless child - indicating growing closer to Jesus. In the Gospels, those "true believers" closest to Jesus await their return home to the "Heavenly Land". Beautiful song, powerfully delivered. I'm not a believer, but I feel it in my own way, being away from my family and home.
I have always loved this song from the time I was introduced to it long ago in highschool for a choir performance. This rendition is marvelous. Thank you.
What a voice!!!!! What an amazing, so absolutely beautiful voice! this is probably what is called heavenly voice..wonderful , and thank you so much for posting this song in Bessie Griffin's voice. You have made my day...the sadness in this song is so profound that one feels that sadness , the history of these spirituals are known to all, and today is Harriet Tubman's 103 death anniversary also. I heard this song before in Paul Robeson's voice, and his voice is wonderful, but Bessie Griffin moves one's core . Thank You!
I’m 33 quadriplegic in my family put me in a nursing home we’re my health is getting worse the food they feed me i wouldn’t feed to my dog my mother get older, I understand but I don’t understand why they don’t help me get a good meal I’m losing weight. I’m sad every day. I have seven bedsores in my list of problems goes on and on I take everything day by day every day I wake up I’m sad I made it through the night
I'm so sad to read of your pain and difficulty. I hope things improve for you. It's hard to accept the tremendous burdens only some have to endure. I'm so sorry I will pray for you. 🙏
Sometimes i feel like a motherless child Sometimes i feel like a motherless child Sometimes i feel like a motherless child A long way from home A long way from home Sometimes i feel like im almost gone Sometimes i feel like im almost gone Sometimes i feel like im almost gone Tho In heaven and way up in thy heaven Thy In heaven and way up in thy heaven Thy In heaven and way up in thy heaven A long way from home A long way from home
Deahra Shelton without a doubt. It’s sad I never knew if you were a grown 24 year old young woman that it was an age limit on trying to have a relationship with her well a grown up one with her at that basically what I’m trying to say is my grandmother had told my mom that she needs to have a talk with me. And her response was “ mama Kira is 24 she needs a life “ like wow really. I never knew it was an age limit on having a or trying to have a relationship with your mom.
I remember when I was a boy of no older than 12 years, all I wanted was to have the soul of an elderly black woman singing about slavery. Of course, a couple of years later, I had discovered Tegan and Sara & P!nk, and became a 14-year-old girl dreaming of love and marriage instead.
As a latch key raised child I can identify. The modern era. Instead of working in the fields our mothers were in corporate America 10 hrs and day and came home all used up.
To everyone who was born and forsaken. Especially to those who know the torment of living with a loveless mother. May you find peace and solace in this life. There is love in you, else you'd never have recognized its absence. Offering you a warm virtual embrace whenever you need it. You are not alone.
This song is so powerful. My own mother tried to drown me as a child and was a completely loveless greedy nasty person . Spent my whole life adrift with no way home because of her . Don't wait to be loved before you can give love ♥️
A revelation to me! I'm so grateful to this person for having introduced this vocal beauty and genius to me! Thanks to both poster princebb1, and AmdusciasMC for notifying me! My shoulders are all hunched up! That lets me know I'm kind of beyond impressed! Thanks so much!
Bessie was Mahalia’s protege. They were good friends actually. Both from New Orleans…she was the female soloist at Mahalia’s New Orleans funeral in February 1972. Bessie’s style was always more churchy than Mahalia’s though… Mahalia’s style, although she didn’t like the comparison, was always more jazz/blues tinged than her contemporaries.
"sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone....true believer....way up in the heavenly land"-this song, the first words, came to mind when I woke up yesterday morning...thruout the day, they replayed, feeling like a soothing balm
I am a motherless daughter, whose mother died in 1980, when I was barely 20. The similarities are endless, whether you speak in spiritual terms or natural, it is still the same to those who will always mourn their loss. A physical mother or a motherland.
Songs like this one are created from personal experience, but once they travel to listeners, their meaning is malleable. The song's meaning is determined by the listener.
we know this song is about slaves but let everyone take it how they want. everyone has a different meaning behind a song. this song reaches my depression. that loneliness she’s describing reflects my depression.
This is 1 of the best versions of this song. Speaks to wvery human heart that has suffered, regardless of color. Music transcends all barriers, it is a gift.
Those who either haven't suffered loss....or who have but don't have the strength to deal with the deep emotion elicited by this beautifully poignant song
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child A long way from home, a long way from home Sometimes I feel like I'm almost done Sometimes I feel like I'm almost done Sometimes I feel like I'm almost done And a long, long way from home, a long way from home True believer True believer A long, long way from home A long, long way from home
Krystal Murphy I know how you feel my mother has four girls in all and I always was treated very Different I was like a Black sheep the outcast and now I'm 24 and she still does that to me I have two kids a boy he is about to be 7yrs old and a baby girl that just turned 1yrs old she doesn't buy my kids nothing no Birthday gifts nothing for Easter or Halloween but she will break her neck for my other sisters and they just use her and talk about her behind her back and when she need them and call on them there not even their she will call me only when she need money or hygiene products and food but don't lift up a finger to do it for me even my own flesh and blood sisters do me like that they tell people I love drama and to stay away from me because I sit up and start shit and I'm a troublemaker all on facebook but deep down inside I know who I am and I do know that there is a god and everybody will reap what they sow on the days of living this earth and will have to stand before that man up above and answer for everything they have said and done I'm learning to forgive them all but I cut all contact I don't have a facebook or anything like that and I just stay away from all of them and even when I see them in the store or somewhere I'll walk right pass them like it ain't shit to be honest they don't speak to me and I don't speak to them or call them I'm like a stranger to them they don't care shit about me unless they need help paying they light bill or their rent or to put food in their house and enough is enough no more pain no more tears everything in life is a lesson learn and remember if they will use you once they will do it again and when they get mad at you and start saying stuff to you and about you they felt that way all along anyways baby girl sorry for the long story but keep your head up you and Erica God loves us both you me & her just stay away from them and keep pushing family will treat you worser then a stranger on the street remember that god is with you wherever you go I love you like a sister and I know how it feels keep your head up :)
Krystal, it's like this. Have you ever come into the presence of someone nice and clean. It is then and then only that you realize that you don't smell too hot. I think the smell of your success, determination, self confidence and sense of self worth, makes her aware of her own stench. Instead of getting herself together, she'd rather be around hose that smell just herself. Hold your head high, you are already a winner . Jealousy IS crueler than the grave.
Everytime I hear this song, It brings tears to my eyes. Me and my mother don't have a good relationship and she is always telling me I should be from de womb to the tomb. (Only my pillow know my tears.)
I know how u feel me n my mom relationship is horrible n I love her dearly but she's very mean unto me n have more negative things 2 say the M positive it breaks my heart cause after she keep poking i say things back outtakes hurt n it breaks me down
There was a time when I myself off from my earthly mom and siblings because that was the best thing I could do for me. I had therapy for more than 6 years because that was how much pain was barried inside of me 🥲 I never thought I would be the one to come back and help her or protect her in her last days 🥲 She and my brothers still hurt me bad. I can’t take much more 🥲🥲🥲
when I was little I didn't understand why women in church would sometimes moan or wail and every week cry. I did not understand the depths of despair that life might offer. now at 57 years of age I feel this song
This isn't about my mom, it describes my relationship with God at times. Not always, but sometimes, I feel so abandoned & casted out in this world without guidance. This song helps me vent in a respectful way.
Why this song doesn’t have MILLIONS of views boggles my imagination!!!! I said it a long time ago here, I’ll say again, this song moves me so much I cry. Makes no difference if you’re black, white, maroon, or Methodist, this song reaches further than merely race or religion. Why don’t people know this version more???
The 1st thought came into my mind while listening to this was my Grandmother's stories she use to share with me ............. One of the most profound stories was : The red stripes on the American flag represented the blood that use to run down their faces after getting beat by the police , ....... The stars was what they seen when they got hit in their head with the sticks........ and the white part was the obvious : She said don't ever give allegiance to a flag that ( HATE ) you , give allegiance to " THE MOST HIGH GOD " who will deliver you from the hand of your enemy and land of captivity ./ but the Lord laughs them to scorn And they shall afterward become dishonored corpses and an unceasing mockery among the dead,. For he shall strike them down speechless and prostrate and rock them to their foundations; They shall be utterly laid waste and shall be in grief and their memory shall perish.
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, A long way from home, a long way from home. Sometimes I feel like I'm almost done, Sometimes I feel like I'm almost done, Sometimes I feel like I'm almost done, And a long, long way from home, a long way from home. True believer, True believer, A long, long way from home, A long, long way from home.
Praying for your healing. This is called a Jezebel-Ahab relationship. Jesus Heals through our Forgiveness. And many times come greater and faster with understanding. (There are reasons THEY may not even know why they behave). Talking from experience, who is learning and healing. 🙂 💛
My sorrow is double listening that song. For me it's not just motherless but also fatherless. It's hard when you can't feel like you can rely on either of your roots
28.1.2023. I've been singing this lament for 50 years now... I've just come off an international conference call with fellows from the UN discussing the racial discrimination in the UK those of us of AfRaKan heritage are subjected to: institutionally, systemically and structurally. I just wanna be Home in Mama AfRaKa 😢
So moving. Why don't people sing like this anymore? It seems people no longer want to be moved by music. They see it as something to distract you from reality rather than something that makes you think about and accept reality.
Exactly...
The drugs have gotten duller, too!
They do! 🌟💚❤️🕊
Veru similar to this. It's my favorite song. ua-cam.com/video/Pj_AcW1YD6w/v-deo.html
Facts. I still sing this way. To me, music is my way to minister not only to me but others.
I had a mother, but I didn't have a mother. She was there physically, but was completely shut off from me emotionally, practically, and there was no sense of love, ever. I've felt like this all my life. This song makes me weep.
Great grandmother didn't raise grandma...grandma didn't raise momma...momma didn't raise me...I didn't raise mine...mental illness/depression/alcohol addiction =DYSFUNCTIONAL family...truly motherless children 😪😪
@@kerenkares6109 my mother's mother was treated like Cinderella by her mother, my great grandmother. Made to do all the cleaning of the house, slept on a mat in the cold basement, ate alone, didn't join in family outings, etc. I didn't know my grandmother very well, but I suspect her childhood warped her and made her abusive to my mother, and my mother continued the cycle down to me and my sisters. My mother clearly has mental illness, severe anxiety and some kind of paranoid delusion disorder that she firmly believes is reality no matter what anybody might tell her. With that kind of family history sometimes I wonder if I can ever recover, but I have to. I want a family, but I won't do to them what she did to me.
For your pain so I Am sorry. But God.... He is I AM ALL YOU NEED
@Sherlock Holmes the best solution to this problem was to cut off all contact with her and move across the country to get away from her. Not all abusers can change and she certainly had no intention of changing. Your solution is to keep me in abuse. That is not acceptable to me. With a normal mother, that might work, but she is not a normal mother. The best thing I ever did for myself was to give up trying to win her love.
@Sherlock Holmes and I understand that you meant to help, but not all mothers love their children. Not all mothers are capable of feeling love. My mother is a deeply and permanently damaged person with no capability to love anybody or anything. If nothing had changed in the 70+ years she has been alive, I feel confident in saying that it is impossible for me to win her love. And that is not because I am unlovable, it is because she has no love to give. She cannot feel love. I feel sorry for her because of this. She has missed out on one of the greatest mysteries and beautiful joys of the human experience. She was warped before she could even fight back against her own abusers. But the fact remains that her heart is unreachable by any mortal human and to keep myself in her power would not help her and it would hurt me very much. Only God can reach her, it is not my responsibility and it is not possible for me. If I thought for a minute that it was, I would never have left.
My mother recorded this song in the 60’s during church. I listen to it when I really miss her
Is Bessie Griffin your mother?
Michael C. Ashford I wanna know too , I would love to hear stories
I feel you
Once we loose our mothers
We are a motherless child
No Bessie Griffin was not my mother.
The Baptize church in Chicago Antioch missionary Baptist Church , had a radio show and everything was recorded onto LP”s . Rev Daniel sermons and choirs where a favorite in Chicago and Indiana.
Btw Dennis I’m 59 just FYI and my mom recorded this song 1964 , I was 3-4 depending on the month
In this song, I remember the pain of my childhood. I remember the day my mother beat me like I was her enemy. I remember the day I got a black eye. I remember when I ran away from her at home and hid. My knees would turn blue. Sometimes I'd hide my crying and go to school. She never recognized me. She never hugged me from the inside. She never knew my troubles. I've always woken up from my sleep saying dad. My mother never believed it when I got sick. My father would have waited with me at night when I was sick. My mother used to sleep. This song reminds me of the days my mother didn't remember, that I couldn't forget.
I am so sorry you were treated with such cruelty. You never deserved that. I hope you have better people in your life now
Yes, you were a motherless child. Your mother sounds like she was very troubled. Not your fault! My heart goes out to you. It’s behind you now and you will never have to go back to that place in your life. Courage to you, my friend.
Sending you peace and virtual hugs from Atlantic, GA❤
u didn't deserve that, I hope u are in a better place now
With pain…just like rain, the rainbow will seep over and shine bright while the ground clears up and the green on the trees will brighten. With love, I’m saddened that you endured so much pain from someone with blind eyes and wide hands. You deserve love, and wide eyes with curious thoughts and hands softer than the clouds that give you touch of heaven. 🩷
I first heard this song after my mom passed away then learned that it was an old spiritual written by slaves about the seperation of families. One of the most hearfelt songs ever.
I have been singing this song since I was a little girl. My granny knew I felt it and loved that my heart was in it when I sung it! Now I realize my mother did not know how to be a mother and that taught me to be super mom! Thanks mom!
Deminga Williams me too... My mother is a piece of work, now I know why I was loving this so much
I can totally relate!
This song is about the African American experience being striped of a mother tongue, a motherland though slavery and racism. It is an expression of the African experience in America. But like all great songs it speaks to different human experiences. " a long way from home".
We have to go back I don't feel safe here
Chase Short are you back yet
She’s singing to any abandoned soul in search of solace and grace.
I'm white and I'll sing this song at my all white Highschool in march. Knowledge is power and I hope I'll do right by all African Americans :)
I strongly feel like acs and foster care system is today's modern version of slave masters stripping brown kids from they family
I love the controlled way she sings, the way she slowly releases the power in her voice. One of my favorite vocal performances.
today i`ve heard her voice for the first time. i`m very impressed. after the first notes i´ve never expected such deep and full lower register.
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blauauge2 I admit that I'm very impressed also compared to Paul Roberson's version.
Wow the best version! My mom passed and now I’m passing with her same kidney disease. I was feeling alone and I started singing this song and looked it up. She is amazing! Thanks for posting
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Bless you kid
Surely You shall LIVE!!!! If it your will…? May the PEASE OF GOD OVERTAKE YOU. In Jesus name🤍🕊️🏹
One of the most powerfully controlled vocal performances ive ever heard. Bravo.
I have lost my mother this year
Suzana Medina
Rest In Peace 👑
God bless you and your family mate.
Rgds from England
play this at my funeral
Lord Linco lol
Lord Linco
At mine too. I'm no bodies child in reggae is awesome by Max Romeo
Just checking in to make sure you still alive bro cuz on God I was gone hold you down 😂😂
I'm a 42 year old woman who has a living mother who could really care less about me. I call or text her telling her i need to talk to her, but she'll either contact 3/4 days later or not at all. I had a father who committed suicide when I was 15 yrs old. I'm so misunderstood and tired of the hurt and pain. This song comforts me.
You will be alright, my Mom dies last year. She didn't love me not one bite but I tried my best to get her to love me. My siblings had her funderal on my birthday.
Wow Destiny, I wish it I could give you a hug right now. I will pray for you and your Mother.
You know..the pain is real.. but do not despair! We have a great Father better then the best mother. God. Jesus Christ. He is full of love and pure guidance and help. He is innocent but all powerful.
All kind of people try to make Him look all wrong, and yet, He died instead of you and wants to give you a new new new life and an eternal one also!
I'm so glad I met Him. Love will prevail! Pure love, unaltered by sin will prevail!
i am trying to learn this song and just heard this arrangement from bessie... POWERFUL
Girl you have picked a challenge soooooo great but I know you give it heart like her and you WILL DO HER JUSTICE!! SING IT CHILD!!!!
Wow. Beautiful voice singing a beautiful song. Her phrasing is-literally-breathtaking. I feel cheated that I haven't heard her before.
My mother passed almost a month ago. She didn’t raise me and was not a part of my life in any real way, and because of her absence I convinced myself that I had all I needed and that I didn’t need her. Today at 41 years old I cried, because for the first time ever I am feeling the pain of her absence. And I am realizing for the first time that I do need her, and that I always did💔
im sorry 😢
I can relate. My bio mom didn't raise me. I did so much for her when we connected in my 30s. She was so toxic and mean towards me.
This is what black pain sounds like; it's haunting, horrifying, yet beautiful. The pain exhibited in this woman's voice still fester in our communities in present day. In the 60's, it was a slow-haunting-melody full of humility and hope, but if that pain is ignored, it might transition to an unapologetic roar that will meet everyone at their front door.
Yes, it has.
Not just black pain, stop with that. All races of people feel the same amount of pain as all others
@@kingofoblivion1822 lies you tell.
@@kingofoblivion1822 this guy is right pain is pain what's race have to do with this.
He’s the one that says this is black pain. All races have extreme pain, not just black but for some reason we are supposed to feel sorry for only one race
no words for the beauty & tone of her voice. just AMAzing✨
This song speaks volumes. For me, it reflects the broken heart of a former foster child who found no mother who would love me. But the word says that though my mother and my father forsake me, God would take me up. Even though I am a mother now, there is a part of me that still longed for a mother.
May God bless and be with you when you long for a mother. Remember that other people in this old world love you, too.
what a powerful voice! OMG
Unbelievable! Incomparable to anything I have ever heard or experienced. What a voice, what emotion, what power. Chilling, haunting, indescribable. She certainly deserves to be better known than she is.
This
Just effortless power and clarity in her voice. This is my lament when I'm feeling lost in the world, lost on my way to "being", mourning my mother. It is my shower song, my connection to my ancestors that didn't/couldn't choose the sea. These aren't tears...they are salty prayers to my Devine.
So so sorry sista! We love you... ❤️🌍
Honey, you are so right. I’ve been trying to make this version more heard and seen by people.
couldn't couldn't said it any better!!!!
What a song! Her voice makes me cry every time
Wow! what a beautiful voice, the song comes from her heart and I can feel it!!! Absolutely wonderful.
I feel this way because although I have a mother and love her dearly I'm treated like a wishing well only needed when there's a need. only when strife arises and I stand up for her or the cause but any other time I'm forgotten and left behind. I'm in college I'm on the deans list, I'm independent and living according to my faith in Christ but it's never enough. the Lord is all I have to hold on to.
your not alone. I pray that you find peace.
+Erica Vereen i feel for you I also have a mother I love dearly but i feel she doesn't love me she just likes my familiarity sometime.
+Erica Vereen It's possible she could be a narcissist. Google it, it may help you tremendously.
The cold glass of water show what does that narcissist word mean please could you please break it down for me thank you and god bless
have you ever express how you feel to her?
Ghostface brought me here. I'm a big hip hop fan and I really appreciate the fact that it has exposed me to so many artists that were before my time. This song is just... inexplicably powerful. What a voice.
This song is about the slaves and being separated from their parents. Not a mother dying...
Anthony Flores Nobody is too young to know music :)
I think the mother here is Africa....
aquariusmarika yes the mother is Africa. The song is about my ancestors and other black american ancestors being separated from their homeland and families
I always thought the "motherless child" was a reference to Jesus, who was a fatherless child - indicating growing closer to Jesus. In the Gospels, those "true believers" closest to Jesus await their return home to the "Heavenly Land".
Beautiful song, powerfully delivered. I'm not a believer, but I feel it in my own way, being away from my family and home.
The song was birthed in slavery and is about separation from the 'mother' Africa.
I have always loved this song from the time I was introduced to it long ago in highschool for a choir performance. This rendition is marvelous. Thank you.
Heidi Rucki rendition? This is the original version
What a voice!!!!! What an amazing, so absolutely beautiful voice! this is probably what is called heavenly voice..wonderful , and thank you so much for posting this song in Bessie Griffin's voice. You have made my day...the sadness in this song is so profound that one feels that sadness , the history of these spirituals are known to all, and today is Harriet Tubman's 103 death anniversary also.
I heard this song before in Paul Robeson's voice, and his voice is wonderful, but Bessie Griffin moves one's core . Thank You!
This very Old and beautiful song could be a song for this Planet..the Earth ..the very HOME of all of us
Women can't make music like this ever again
I know this is really an Odetta song, but Bessie Griffin is one of the true greats. I love her performances. I wish I could have seen/heard her live.
Older than Odetta. From the slaves
Timeless song sung by a beautiful and uniquely soulful voice.
I’m 33 quadriplegic in my family put me in a nursing home we’re my health is getting worse the food they feed me i wouldn’t feed to my dog my mother get older, I understand but I don’t understand why they don’t help me get a good meal I’m losing weight. I’m sad every day. I have seven bedsores in my list of problems goes on and on I take everything day by day every day I wake up I’m sad I made it through the night
I'm so sad to read of your pain and difficulty. I hope things improve for you. It's hard to accept the tremendous burdens only some have to endure. I'm so sorry I will pray for you. 🙏
Where are you? I'll come to you.
Sometimes i feel like a motherless child
Sometimes i feel like a motherless child
Sometimes i feel like a motherless child
A long way from home
A long way from home
Sometimes i feel like im almost gone
Sometimes i feel like im almost gone
Sometimes i feel like im almost gone
Tho In heaven and way up in thy heaven
Thy In heaven and way up in thy heaven
Thy In heaven and way up in thy heaven
A long way from home
A long way from home
This speaks to my heart and soul.
Spoken for every child who felt alone 2017
Deahra Shelton without a doubt. It’s sad I never knew if you were a grown 24 year old young woman that it was an age limit on trying to have a relationship with her well a grown up one with her at that basically what I’m trying to say is my grandmother had told my mom that she needs to have a talk with me. And her response was “ mama Kira is 24 she needs a life “ like wow really. I never knew it was an age limit on having a or trying to have a relationship with your mom.
Deahra Shelton 2018...❤️😏😌😐
"Don't say the years, it's for eternity"-Q-tip (A Tribe Called Quest)
Bessie oh bessie you really left your mark on music! Pure perfection 🙌
I remember when I was a boy of no older than 12 years, all I wanted was to have the soul of an elderly black woman singing about slavery.
Of course, a couple of years later, I had discovered Tegan and Sara & P!nk, and became a 14-year-old girl dreaming of love and marriage instead.
As a latch key raised child I can identify. The modern era. Instead of working in the fields our mothers were in corporate America 10 hrs and day and came home all used up.
To everyone who was born and forsaken. Especially to those who know the torment of living with a loveless mother. May you find peace and solace in this life. There is love in you, else you'd never have recognized its absence. Offering you a warm virtual embrace whenever you need it. You are not alone.
This song is so powerful. My own mother tried to drown me as a child and was a completely loveless greedy nasty person . Spent my whole life adrift with no way home because of her . Don't wait to be loved before you can give love ♥️
I feel like crying. But it's beautiful.
A revelation to me! I'm so grateful to this person for having introduced this vocal beauty and genius to me! Thanks to both poster princebb1, and AmdusciasMC for notifying me! My shoulders are all hunched up! That lets me know I'm kind of beyond impressed! Thanks so much!
she gives mahalia a run for her money not many can do that!
Bessie was Mahalia’s protege. They were good friends actually. Both from New Orleans…she was the female soloist at Mahalia’s New Orleans funeral in February 1972. Bessie’s style was always more churchy than Mahalia’s though… Mahalia’s style, although she didn’t like the comparison, was always more jazz/blues tinged than her contemporaries.
euphoria introduced me to this heavenly song
I lost my mother years ago, sometimes now I feel lost as well.
I am really sorry about that. May she rest in peace.
Absolutely beautifully performed it's such a stunner of a song.
I'm emotional listening to her you can imagine what a child went thru..
It hits different when a woman sings it for sure
"sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone....true believer....way up in the heavenly land"-this song, the first words, came to mind when I woke up yesterday morning...thruout the day, they replayed, feeling like a soothing balm
WOW... What an amazing voice! I've never heard of Bessie Griffin but I'll be looking for her work! Thanks!
I am a motherless daughter, whose mother died in 1980, when I was barely 20. The similarities are endless, whether you speak in spiritual terms or natural, it is still the same to those who will always mourn their loss. A physical mother or a motherland.
Songs like this one are created from personal experience, but once they travel to listeners, their meaning is malleable. The song's meaning is determined by the listener.
we know this song is about slaves but let everyone take it how they want. everyone has a different meaning behind a song. this song reaches my depression. that loneliness she’s describing reflects my depression.
This is 1 of the best versions of this song. Speaks to wvery human heart that has suffered, regardless of color. Music transcends all barriers, it is a gift.
Thank you for helping me with my burden. Such a voice!
I have to sing this song for my girls' choir audition. Never heard of it before but it's actually really nice
David Ciullo how did it go?
Who would downvote this gem?
Some motherless jerks.
Those who either haven't suffered loss....or who have but don't have the strength to deal with the deep emotion elicited by this beautifully poignant song
Euphoria brought me here ♡
i love it sm
This song is about loneliness above all
What a stunning version of this song. Heart-wrenching.
BLACK PEOPLE CAN SANG DAT SHIT...dat you like and steal
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
A long way from home, a long way from home
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost done
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost done
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost done
And a long, long way from home, a long way from home
True believer
True believer
A long, long way from home
A long, long way from home
slave songs... the things we "civilized" humans do to other humans.. the horrors!
This was the first song that my voice coach had me do in college. Most people would think that I'm "white". But DNA tests show different.
I can relate to this song and what erica just said.. I get treated different.. and im soo tired of it..
Krystal Murphy I know how you feel my mother has four girls in all and I always was treated very Different I was like a Black sheep the outcast and now I'm 24 and she still does that to me I have two kids a boy he is about to be 7yrs old and a baby girl that just turned 1yrs old she doesn't buy my kids nothing no Birthday gifts nothing for Easter or Halloween but she will break her neck for my other sisters and they just use her and talk about her behind her back and when she need them and call on them there not even their she will call me only when she need money or hygiene products and food but don't lift up a finger to do it for me even my own flesh and blood sisters do me like that they tell people I love drama and to stay away from me because I sit up and start shit and I'm a troublemaker all on facebook but deep down inside I know who I am and I do know that there is a god and everybody will reap what they sow on the days of living this earth and will have to stand before that man up above and answer for everything they have said and done I'm learning to forgive them all but I cut all contact I don't have a facebook or anything like that and I just stay away from all of them and even when I see them in the store or somewhere I'll walk right pass them like it ain't shit to be honest they don't speak to me and I don't speak to them or call them I'm like a stranger to them they don't care shit about me unless they need help paying they light bill or their rent or to put food in their house and enough is enough no more pain no more tears everything in life is a lesson learn and remember if they will use you once they will do it again and when they get mad at you and start saying stuff to you and about you they felt that way all along anyways baby girl sorry for the long story but keep your head up you and Erica God loves us both you me & her just stay away from them and keep pushing family will treat you worser then a stranger on the street remember that god is with you wherever you go I love you like a sister and I know how it feels keep your head up :)
Krystal, it's like this. Have you ever come into the presence of someone nice and clean. It is then and then only that you realize that you don't smell too hot. I think the smell of your success, determination, self confidence and sense of self worth, makes her aware of her own stench. Instead of getting herself together, she'd rather be around hose that smell just herself. Hold your head high, you are already a winner . Jealousy IS crueler than the grave.
I’m here in 2022 I came from the movie Elvis Jaszmine Sullivan has a cover on it in the movie.💞
Loss loneliness oppression desperation enslavement hunger...
Everytime I hear this song, It brings tears to my eyes. Me and my mother don't have a good relationship and she is always telling me I should be from de womb to the tomb. (Only my pillow know my tears.)
I know how u feel me n my mom relationship is horrible n I love her dearly but she's very mean unto me n have more negative things 2 say the M positive it breaks my heart cause after she keep poking i say things back outtakes hurt n it breaks me down
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@@AphoticGoblin That same video led me to this song lol
The story of the black man in America.
RIP Mom
Latanya L. Mack
It doesn't matter your age. It's an emotional state of being. ❤️
There was a time when I myself off from my earthly mom and siblings because that was the best thing I could do for me. I had therapy for more than 6 years because that was how much pain was barried inside of me 🥲 I never thought I would be the one to come back and help her or protect her in her last days 🥲 She and my brothers still hurt me bad. I can’t take much more 🥲🥲🥲
I just heard of this woman looking for somebody else, but this song just depressed the hell out of me.
when I was little I didn't understand why women in church would sometimes moan or wail and every week cry. I did not understand the depths of despair that life might offer. now at 57 years of age I feel this song
This isn't about my mom, it describes my relationship with God at times. Not always, but sometimes, I feel so abandoned & casted out in this world without guidance. This song helps me vent in a respectful way.
You aren't abandoned you are loved
Back in the day many said that Bessie was greater that Mahalia but didn't get the push
I love this song
My Mom died when my sister's and I were
1, 2 and.3yrs old,
I was the youngest, this
song use comfort me somehow.
Still MANY IN 2019,
İçimi dinlendiriyor
Akıp gidiyor
Sesinin rüzgarı
Gifted,powerful and beautiful.
Why this song doesn’t have MILLIONS of views boggles my imagination!!!! I said it a long time ago here, I’ll say again, this song moves me so much I cry. Makes no difference if you’re black, white, maroon, or Methodist, this song reaches further than merely race or religion. Why don’t people know this version more???
This is how I feel right now. So much pain...
My mom still alive and still I’m a motherless child 🥲
I first heard this on Brother Prince Dixon’s gospel caravan on Kpfk. Ironically I saw him perform this live at St. Peter’s Rock MBC.
i feel sad now
May I use your Mom's song for my web ministry, "Motherless Child"? This ministry has been in my heart for a long time. I am going to start soon.
I FEEL IT CAN BE WHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO MEAN A MOTHER OR A SLAVE DONT MATTER THE SONG IS TOUHING SAD BUT SHE SUNG IT WONDERFUL SAD BUT WELL DONE
goodness me --how could have missed this wonderful vocalist -
I love this song and Bessie Griffin, beautiful voice.
she needs a movie Lifetime, just saying...
The 1st thought came into my mind while listening to
this was my Grandmother's stories she use to share
with me ............. One of the most profound stories
was : The red stripes on the American flag represented
the blood that use to run down their faces after getting
beat by the police , ....... The stars was what they seen
when they got hit in their head with the sticks........
and the white part was the obvious : She said don't
ever give allegiance to a flag that ( HATE ) you , give
allegiance to " THE MOST HIGH GOD " who will deliver you
from the hand of your enemy and land of captivity ./
but the Lord laughs them to scorn
And they shall afterward become dishonored corpses
and an unceasing mockery among the dead,.
For he shall strike them down speechless
and prostrate and rock them to their foundations;
They shall be utterly laid waste
and shall be in grief and their memory shall perish.
This was my first time listening this song. I love it.
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child,
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child,
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child,
A long way from home, a long way from home.
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost done,
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost done,
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost done,
And a long, long way from home, a long way from home.
True believer,
True believer,
A long, long way from home,
A long, long way from home.
I remember when Prince song it before he Died;;🙏🏾 rest in peace prince!🌹🙏🏾🕊️
Mother abused n let my father abuse me. She never loved me n I kept trying to get her love but nothing worked. This is all I think about with her. 😑💜
Praying for your healing.
This is called a Jezebel-Ahab relationship. Jesus Heals through our Forgiveness.
And many times come greater and faster with understanding. (There are reasons THEY may not even know why they behave). Talking from experience, who is learning and healing. 🙂
💛
Amazing singing of such a moving song! Thank you 🙏🏻♾🤍♥️🤗💃🎤🎼💎Adela-Adriana Moscu
#RomanianBornAmericanArtist
My sorrow is double listening that song. For me it's not just motherless but also fatherless. It's hard when you can't feel like you can rely on either of your roots
28.1.2023. I've been singing this lament for 50 years now...
I've just come off an international conference call with fellows from the UN discussing the racial discrimination in the UK those of us of AfRaKan heritage are subjected to: institutionally, systemically and structurally.
I just wanna be Home in Mama AfRaKa 😢