Old Woman Young Woman
(Motherless Child)














In the final days before her death last year, the soul singer Odetta was interviewed by a journalist from the New York Times. When asked what song she wanted to be remembered for, she sang this:

Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child

The singer in this version is a young Jamaican woman named Liz Mitchell. She is singing on a German television show in 1971 with a cover band called Les Humphries.