(This article is about the blues song. For the Negro spiritual, see Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.)(This article is about the blues song. For another blues song, see Motherless Child Blues.) "Motherless Children" is a blues standard first recorded by Blind Willie Johnson in 1927, and later popularised (inter alia) by such names as Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, Steve Miller, Eric Clapton, Rosanne Cash and Lucinda Williams.