Key: F
Introduction:
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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
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Long way from my home
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Sometimes I wish I could fly
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Like a bird up in the sky
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Oh, sometimes I wish I could fly
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Fly like a bird up in the sky
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Sometimes I wish I could fly
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Like a bird up in the sky
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Closer to my home
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Motherless children have a hard time
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Motherless children have-a such a hard time
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Motherless children have such a really hard time
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A long way from home
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Sometimes I feel like freedom is near
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Sometimes I feel like freedom is here
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Sometimes I feel like freedom is so near
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But we're so far from home
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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
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Baby, Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
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Long way from my home
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Sometimes I feel like it gets closer now
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Sometimes I feel like the kingdom is at hand
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Sometimes I feel like kingdom is now
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But we're so far from home