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Thread #23495   Message #3837471
Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
08-Feb-17 - 03:05 AM
Thread Name: Origins: I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Subject: RE: Origins: I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger
It's closer to the one posted above than the other 'Pilgrim' thread that just got bumped:

The Wayfaring Pilgrim
Rev. Ivy Ernest Rippetoe; Rev. Robert Henry Cunningham
(As performed by the Stamps Co. Music Quartet c.1940)


I am a poor wayfaring pilgrim,
While trav'ling thru this world below;
There is no sickness, toil nor danger
In that bright world to which I go, to which I go.
I'm going there to meet my father,
I'm going there no more to roam;
I am going over Jordan,
I'm just going over home.

I know dark clouds will gather o'er me,
I know my pathway's rough and steep;
But golden fields lie out before me,
What weary eyes no more shall weep, no more shall weep.
I'm going there to see my mother,
She said she'd meet me when I come;
I am going over Jordan,
I'm just going over home.

I'll soon be free from ev'ry trial,
This form will rest beneath the sod;
I'll drop the cross of self denial,
And enter in my home with God.
I'm going there to meet my Savior,
Who shed for me his precious blood,
I am going over Jordan,
I'm just going I'm going home.


Note: This is lifted from an old AM radio rebroadcast. The Rev. Rippetoe (1892-1962) was a Texas music teacher; composer and one-time Prez. Of the Texas State Singing Convention. He sang for one or another of the V.O. Stamps Quartets briefly, his brother a while longer.

R.H. Cunningham is mentioned as being from Lexington, KY but I haven't looked into him much.

It appears in several of the Zion's Call camp meeting songbooks. Copyright: 1944, Stamps-Baxter Music but none are credited to Cunningham-Rippetoe.