Audio CD with full colour 8 page booklet with song notes, track listing etc.
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I first heard Ritchie Havens sing this traditional American slave song in the opening sequence of the movie Woodstock.
I have added extra verses about our separation from Eden, from ‘the garden.’ This is not nostalgia, but expresses my despair that we may already be too late.
Our fragile planet is the only one we have, and the only home we will ever have. We are all prisoners of our environment. Life outside our planet is an illusion, and if we do not recognise and respect our Mother Earth, our species can not survive. That is not an ‘alternative fact’. Eggs is eggs.
lyrics
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child…
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
Sometimes I feel that we are almost gone
Sometimes I feel like we are almost gone,
Sometimes I feel like we are almost gone,
A long, long way from home.
I remember our mother, seems a long time ago,
I remember our dear mother, seems a long time ago,
Her rivers ran clear, we could watch the garden grow,
Now we’re a long way from home.
Now we can’t drink the water, the air it makes us choke,
The ice caps are shrinking, and the forest up in smoke,
Nuclear plant in melt-down, the currency is broke,
We’re a long, long way from home.
The garden turns to concrete, makes us corporation slaves,
To the TV and the shopping mall, from the nursery to the grave,
The war machine is hungry, eating up the brave,
And we’re a long, long way from home…
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child… Rpt. Verse 1
Bill Lloyd is a folk singer and multi-instrumentalist from the Lake District in northern England. He plays 5 string banjo
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