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T - authors
Tarplin, M.: Ain't That Peculiar Torme, Melvin H.: The Christmas Song
Taylor, Tony: Emotional Step Trad.: Bold Young Farmer
Taylor, Tony: I've Got This Feeling Trad.: Danny Boy
Taylor, Tony: On The Inside Trad.: Wade In The Water
Taylor, Tony: You Are Trad.: Waly Waly
Theard, Sam: Let The Good Times Roll Trad.: The Water Is Wide
Thiele, Robert: What A Wonderful World Trad.: Way Beyond The Blue
Thompson, Wayne Carson: The Letter Trad.: Wayfaring Stranger

Wayfaring Stranger

(Trad. arr. Eva Cassidy)






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I am a poor wayfaring stranger
While journeying through this world of woe
Yet there’s no sickness toil nor danger
In that bright land to which I go

I’m going there to see my father
I’m going there no more to roam
I’m only going over Jordan
I’m only going over home

I know dark clouds will gather over me
I know my way my way is rough and steep
Yet beautiful fields lie just before me
And God’s redeemed their vigils keep

I’m going there to see my father
I’m going there no more to roam
I'm only going over Jordan
I’m only going over home

I’m going there oh to see my mother
I’m going there no more to roam
I’m only going over Jordan
I’m only going over home

I want to wear that crown of glory
When I get home to that good land
Well I want to shout salvation’s story
In concert with the blood-washed band

I’m going there to see my Savior
Oh I’m going there no more to roam
I’m only going over Jordan
I’m only going over home

Well I'm only going over home
Yeah only going over home
I'm only going over home



found on (#1) EBH (cd/cas), single Hit 15; (#2) S (cd/cas/lp), promo single Hot 6; (#3) LAP. Compilations: Jazz Vocalizin' #5.
Base text is #1; #2 identical. Variants in #3:
l. 10: 'my way' once only;
l. 12: reads 'In that bright land to which they keep';
l. 13: father: 'mother';
l. 21: that: 'a';
l. 23: omits 'Well';
l. 26: omits 'Oh';
l. 29: omits 'Well'; home: 'Jordan';
l. 30: Yeah: 'I'm';
l. 31. omitted.
►PL - Song by song; PL - ECB live.
original: ? (lyrics recorded as early as 1858)
covers: 16 Horsepower (2000); Trace Adkins (1997); Albion Band (1997); Anonymous 4; Joan Baez; Mandy Barnett (1996); Tim Buckley; Johnny Cash (2000); Charley Haden Quartet West (1999); Jerry Garcia & David Grisman (2002); [more...] Gibson & Camp (1958); Patty Griffin; Emmylou Harris (1980); Bobby Horton (2001); Burl Ives (194?); Bill Laswell; Maria McKee (2001); Marshall Tucker Band (1999); Natalie Merchant; Bill Monroe; Odetta; Dolly Parton (1994); Peter Paul & Mary (2004); Cyndee Peters & Eric Bibb (1993); Almeda Riddle; Roy Rodgers Jr.; Andreas Scholl; Dusty Springfield; Jo Stafford; The Wayfaring Strangers (2001); Jack White (2003) (Covers Project; recorded by many folk singers, see Ibiblio Folk Index).