Louis Armstrong - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child

[namcram]

summertime... and the living is easy

[goLFSgo]

love the dialogue at the end

[isandlwana1000]

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

[MrVeinemeinen]

Sorry, but why these pictures?

[ali67063]

Add salt to the song by showing the real face expressions of louis himself. Slave traders Should be ashamed in their graves.

By: Ali Ngare

[alfredo05]

@ali67063 good song,,,forget about slave traders...just listen the song

[jjdavidray]

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

[earthalien77]

Haunting...

[cheekyzie]

...a long ways from home...

[famackenzie1]

This is an old spiritual song about a child being being forcibly separated from their mother because they are sold in a slave market.

[iyannie4u]

blackeyed peas and rice ummmm sounds good

[WAMEDJO]

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.

[johnnypt22]

This here is soulful.

[14YrOldSnareProd]

@inasez and @indynana7 this song is about being seperated from ur homeland and about slavery back in the days, most of us know it was wrong, now, quit fighting on such an inspirational video, please.

[abcdefgh149]

...heartbreaking...



[Tonlondong]

whos the chick in the vid?

[Thomas05091942]

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.

[MsEvahu]

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

[LionEntity]

A long way from home...from Africa.

Far away from Mama Africa.

This is a very spiritual song...i love it...

Blessed Love...

[indynana7]

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

[inasez]

@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!

[indynana7]

@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!

[inasez]

@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.

[indynana7]

@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]

@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]

@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]

@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.

[chelapagos10]

Anyone who listens to this beautiful rendition should take the time to read up on the true spiritual legacy that African Americans left us through their deep sufferings. The book Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction taught me more than I can put into words. Read it. It will change your life.

[RAFAELLLLL]

isso é MUSICA!

this is MUSIC!

Louis Rules!

[HalfSun24]

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.

[1psoas9]

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 ...

[suchalady91]

jus beautiful

[delpha3110]

the desert desertion is the motherless love the fight ,well they say its the fight but it aint

[simplylovelyful]

Damn shame the crap black people had to deal with back in those days...and even still today! R.I.P to the long great & legendary Louis Armstrong! <3

[farrazano]

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

[yourmomsrottencorpse]

@farrazano not just from your homeland but from your whole sense of identity disapears and your homeland is nothing more than a clouded concept based on something foreign. they had to start from scratch in a strange land that was all they knew.

[deltaofwar]

@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.

[tigera10030]

@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.

[jgar6]

@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.

[examinfo]

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

[vicensful]

put this in youtube and check itf you like

Sometimes I feel.... 09-Oct-2009

[mahvachcheidani]

RIP louis armstrong the GREAT the KING of trompet and jazz; he's now missed in this world and i remember when he died in 1970;, my dear late dad broke in tears.

[Memale2009]

I like the music, but not the video: I miss the logical link between the pictures and the message.

[redlaci]

fasza zene!

[Dudley1948]

A long long way from home.

RIP Louis.

[adamko92]

great man....

[KostazK]

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

[lekezenman]

When the feeling creeps up I answer with:

Right I will be mother father and myself! Basta!

And fight till death parts those utter strange demons that care not cheaply enjoy playing a role here anyway.

[c3c3wildin]

from atl

[meaume]

Je vois que vous avez utilisé des fragments du montage que j'avais fabriqué pour une de nos interpretations, Moulin à Café par le Louisiana Jazz Band. J'en suis fier. Merci.

Mais vous auriez du retirer le titre...

[twangman5]

Fminor

[caitlinday16]

anyone know what key this is in?

[khargrar]

Fm :-)

[metyuewb]

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.

[kuchenO]

think so too man!

[123must]

e cosa diciamo del vecchio " clown ".

Very movin'!

[sophiafaith]

chilling, haunting, makes me want to choreograph

[MiximusRider]

Anyone knows where I can see the Boney M version?

[kurisensei]

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

[sinlol68]

whoa

[MaTrAxx]

Oh god. Incredible song.

[zshzanTila]

Beautiful..