Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Chile

from Heard the Voice by Andrew Jamieson

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Sometimes I feel like a motherless chile. Sometimes I feel like a motherless chile. Sometimes I feel like a motherless chile. A long ways from home. A long ways from home. (Text from Negro Spirituals by Harry T. Burleigh, 1917) The pain in this song is not entirely familiar to me, as a white person who has benefited from the effects of slavery, segregation and racism more than suffering from them. Constant atonal sonorities give me a taste of what it might be like to feel abandoned, rejected, or unloved. Their downward motion is perhaps a form of oppression. Strains of the melody, often only two or three notes, cry the tune against this texture, ultimately subsumed by it.

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from Heard the Voice, released August 18, 2015

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