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Motherless Child

from Dream of Home by Joyce Kwon

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    JOYCE FOR THRIVING 2020 is a phrase adapted from a track off the album, "When I'm a Raisin," and has been a slogan throughout the recording process. Ross has one too so you can feel super cool knowing that you are twinsies with the producer. It is printed on the American Apparel USA-Made Jersey T-shirt, which runs small FYI.

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lyrics

가련하다 갈곳잃은 우리 (Pitiful are we who’ve lost our way)
서글프다 나라없는 우리 (Sad are we the nationless)
비통하다 자유없는 우리 (Sorrowful are we stripped of freedom)
돌아갈길 잊어버렸나? (Have we forgotten the way back?)
너무 멀리 가버렸나? (Have we gone too far?)

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
A long ways from home, a long ways from home

True believer | I do believe
True believer | We’ll find our way home
True believer | When the heavens cry out
Heavenly land, true believer | 흙 다시 만져보자
True believer | We will rise up, rise up and take back our land
Motherless child | 바닷물은 언제 춤을 출까?

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
바닷물은 언제 춤을 출까? (When will the ocean rise to dance?)
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
흙 다시 만져보자 (Let us touch the soil again)
A long ways from home, a long ways from home

Such a long, long ways from home

credits

from Dream of Home, released December 7, 2018
American traditional
Arranged by Joyce Kwon
Korean lyrics by Joyce’s mom, additional English lyrics by Joyce Kwon
Korean ad libs based on the Korean Liberation Day song lyrics by Jung In-bo

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Joyce Kwon Los Angeles, California

singer, composer & gayageum player making folk music for folks of the diaspora

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