I am a poor wayfaring stranger

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Title: I am a poor wayfaring stranger
Text: Christian Songster, 1858, alt.
Tune: WAYFARING STRANGER
Music: American traditional; arr. Kenan Schaefkofer, 2021
Key: D minor
Meter: 98.98 D
Date Added: 2021/05/11

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I am a poor wayfaring stranger
atravlin' through this world of woe,
yet there's no sickness, toil or danger
in that bright world to which I go.

I'm going there to see my father,
I'm going there no more to roam;

  I'm just agoin' over Jordan,
  I'm just agoin' over home.

I know dark clouds will gather round me,
I know my pathway's rough and steep,
but golden fields lie out before me,
where weary eyes no more shall weep.

I'm going there to see my mother,
She said she'd meet me when I come;

  I'm just agoin' over Jordan,
  I'm just agoin' over home.

I'll soon be free from ev'ry trial.
This form will rest beneath the sod.
I'll drop the cross of selfdenial,
and enter in my home with God.

I'm going there to see my savior,
to sing his praise forevermore;

  I'm just agoin' over Jordan,
  I'm just agoin' over home.

Alternate words

Say not the struggle naught availeth