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Thread #133748   Message #3037121
Posted By: Joe Offer
20-Nov-10 - 09:58 PM
Thread Name: Origins: At Jacob's Well (a Stranger Sought)
Subject: ADD: At Jacob's Well (a Stranger Sought)
Jon Boden's Folk Song a Day for November 21 is "At Jacob's Well." I can't find anything about it here at Mudcat, and very little elsewhere. Golden Hind Music has lyrics:

Jacob's Well

At Jacob's Well, a stranger sought his drooping frame to cheer.
Samaria's daughter little thought that Jacob's God was near.

This had she known, her fainting mind for richer draughts had sighed,
Nor had Messiah, ever kind, those richer draughts denied.

This ancient well, no glass so true, Britannia's image shows.
Now Jesus walks our country through, but who the stranger knows?

Yet we must all the stranger know, or soon our lows deplore.
Behold! the living waters flow, come drink, and thirst no more.


© Golden Hind Music


I found a copy of the Methodist Magazine from 1891 that had the first two verses.