Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sometimes_I_Feel_Like_a_Motherless_Child

Just another tidbit to help us with our backstory and character development work......

Here is the Wikipedia site that explains the meaning of Lee’s stunning rendition of “Motherless Child”......that he sings at the opening of Act 2 Sene 2......and how appropriate it is........especially this part.....

Although the plaintive words can be interpreted literally, they might alternatively be metaphoric. The “motherless child” could be a slave separated from and yearning for his or her African homeland, his or her spouse, parents, siblings or child(ren) (from all or any of which he or she may have been separated in the trafficking process) or a slave suffering “a long ways from home”—home being heaven—or most likely all.

And it really drives home Crooks loneliness on the farm.....