Intersting versions, all good, all different. Funny thing is, JT, I hear the version you posted as most traditional. This is a song that has plenty of elbow room for indidivual expression. I haven't done this song in probably thirty years and was only reminded of it the other day. I did it in an open tuning, slowed down and holding out the lines. It gave me the space to savor the lines and the images. No switch to a major chord, becuae I wasn't playing chords as much as patterns. I'll have to see if I can even remember how I did it.

One night I did a couple of songs at an open mike night at Gerde's Folk City and Dave Van Ronk was there. I had taken a couple of months of lessons from Dave, so he knew my music. When I started Wayfaring Stranger, he jumped up on stage and sang harmony with me. That is the only time I ever heard Dave sing harmony. I think the song pulled him in.