Armstrong, Louis - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child Lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1ZqN_VFhdo&fbclid=IwAR1yjNIFSyWA6F1vBPBMZeUot52k-i_CXC0meX_e8FIechWC-7XoJJLcMNI

For Elton John

MARAVILLOSO!!!!!

Les photos du début sont totalement hors sujet

I love Armstrong

C'est mon cas.C'est ce que je ressens souvent!

Vous n'êtes pas seule dans ce cas, une pensée pour vous... et pour tous les autres.

The pictures are of Louise Brooks. She had a brief but very memorable film career in the 1920s when Armstrong and Bechet were building their careers. She wrote about the period later. Her characters and life can fit into the role of a "motherless child" in a different way from the original spiritual's meaning. Her film career too place a long way from her home.

A true classic.

Simplement géant ,Merci

Shouts out to Richie Haven. Shouts out to speedom and strange music and Eminem for referencing this song

Excellent !!!

Sometimes...

Pure Magic from Pop´s GOOD BOOK ! Delightfull and Uplifting ... Everytime !

What is the purpose of these photos? they don't relate to the purpose of the song. And who is the woman?

Maybe it's his mother

+theedustin
It is Anita Loos. No connection to Armstrong that I can think of.

Excellent ;wonderful

come to me...

very best song

c'est vrai!

Une pensée pour ceux qui ont dû quitter leurs terres natales et transmis, malgré eux parfois, un manque indélébile à leurs descendants....

Beautiful choir and great Louis

Beautiful song and a great Satchmo !
Thanks a lot

I love this song!

Did someone say Motherless?

I think many refugees can relate to this song

I'm guessing since this song is in the tradition of the spirituals, there could also be the interpretation that it's about being separated from God. Either way, it's beautiful. Have you heard the version by the Blind Boys of Alabama? I rate it.

Why do you want to sample this, 'cause you can't make actual MUSIC anywhere NEAR it?

This goes back way to far for Hip Hop. Hippy hop to the barbershop.

Pure hiphop

summertime... and the living is easy

Its quietly an insult these pictures! Never forget the SOUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, but why these pictures?

they female pictures need to be removed FIRST!! a touching, moving song

Haunting...

@farrazano Yes the literal is not the only interpretation. However the experience of slaves being seperated from their mothers is definaly part of it. Its dual meaning is part of what makes it so beautiful.

...a long ways from home...

blackeyed peas and rice ummmm sounds good

One can talk -or write-, as he has a tongue to speech, but better keep in mind that the music here don't need it.

@indynana7 And just to make it clear... yes... capitalism, which requires hoarding resources everyone needs and thereby forcing others to do with far less resources than they actually need IS an example of benefiting unjustly from the suffering of others. If you find you have more than enough resources, then you have benefitted from someone else not having enough. I do it. You do too. Deal with it. Work THAT truth out with your own conscience and your own God. I will do so with mine.

If there is one thing worse than being preached ignorant bullshit, it is being preached ignorant bullshit by the insufferably self righteous.

@indynana7 I would take it YOU are not a follower of christ. Christ was all about loving and giving rather than judging and condemning. You condemn others for feeling badly about the unacknowledged injustices they experience on a daily basis. To refuse anyone the mere dignity of acknowledging a wrong was done means you excuse the wrong that was done them. Save ur lectures for those who benefit unjustly from the suffering of others. My belief or disbelief in God is not the topic at hand.

@inasez Human beings were created to seek. What they are really to seek, is their creator, but sadly that has been perverted .. EVERYTHING has been perverted. When God gave mankind anything - evil has perverted it. And I mean EVERYTHING. You talk about Human life and dignity, where is the dignity in taking - People basically are givers. And most willingly do so. TO A POINT. I will help you to your feet. I will not carry you if you have feet. I would guess you are NOT a Follower of Christ??

@inasez Human beings were created to seek. What they are really to seek, is their creator, but sadly that has been perverted .. EVERYTHING has been perverted. When God gave mankind anything - evil has perverted it. And I mean EVERYTHING. You talk about Human life and dignity, where is the dignity in taking - People basically are givers. And most willingly do so. TO A POINT. I will help you to your feet. I will not carry you if you have feet. I would guess you are NOT a Follower of Christ??

@indynana7 What you are talking about is Capitalism, and while I am not inclined to go into an anti-capitalist tirade, I should point out it is far from the only possible way to organize the human species. It does however REQUIRE certain ppl to go without while others hoard resources. . You speak of money as if having it or not has intrinsic value and moral worth in and of itself. I have a few dollars, and I assure you it does not. Human life and dignity however, DOES. Thx for talking.

@inasez
Try to think of this.... There is only so much money to go around. IF everyone had the SAME amount - there would be no reason to even try to achieve better, there would even be no reason to invent and improve. Money would then be as worthless as the leaves on a tree. The way it is set up is to MAKE people WANT more, and if you want MORE you are supposed to WORK FOR MORE. NOT ASK THE GOVERNMENT FOR IT. Get out of the POOR ME mentality that this government trained to in.. and THINK!

@indynana7 I'm with indy. Wallow in your privilege instead! make excuses for all the things you have gained at the direct expense of others you never have to know or see!! Never ever acknowledge the pain of others and never EVER feel accountable for your own part in any system of injustice larger than yourself! Take credit for everything good in humanity and never EVER accept criticism of any kind!! Gawd have mercy on your greedy, delusional souls!

whos the chick in the vid?

I was not aware of the origin of this song until now. We sang it in our grammar school choir, in the mid 1950’s. I will always think of it as a very sad song.

I came to heare by listening to Y´ngwie M....
He wrote a "song": "Motherless child" as I heard as an lp. Miss it sometimes, and tried to find it.
Might have goe wrong!
Love!
Eva

A long way from home...from Africa.
Far away from Mama Africa.
This is a very spiritual song...i love it...
Blessed Love...

Wallow in your misery and enjoy your pain! Make excuses for your own personal failures! God Have mercy on all of you!

@deltaofwar only legal slavery. Let's not even talk about the human trafficking that still goes on, and is fully support by some businesses here in the U.S.

@farrazano there havent been slaves in over 100 years, white men fought and killed echother under the guise that slaves were being freed, Abe lincoln used the slaves as an excuse to justify an executive order, rail roading of states rights, and his disregard for Irish Immigrants and what Union cavalry units were doing during the civil war, the Civil war was a act of imperiolisim in and of it self, i do belive it was the right thing but abe lincoln lied, he lied about why americans fought.

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Unfortunately, this was literally true for hundreds of thousands of African American children who were ripped away from their homes and families and sold to slavers who took them hundreds of miles from home.

You can hear the intense sorrow in the horn playing. Louis Armstrong was himself an orphan who learned to play horn in an orphanage in New Orleans.

Edgy graphics -- that's Louise Brooks as Lulu, the symbol of urban alienation.... great song, great GREAT, vastly under-rated singer. not a great performance, ut ...

This song is not literal. It is a metaphor for being separated from your homeland. R.I.P to the slaves

You can feel the agony and pain of the times. What a song!

fasza zene!

think so too man!

great man....

...damn, sometimes i feel like i could only hear....

in the key that doesn't open your door back home ever again, that's what key it's in. Damn, if you can't use your soul why be a musician? It isn't math.

e cosa diciamo del vecchio " clown ".
Very movin'!

chilling, haunting, makes me want to choreograph

if you scroll down the list on the right, dwc972 has the vid for that in black n white. Awesome

Anyone knows where I can see the Boney M version?

Oh god. Incredible song.

Beautiful..