Origins: I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wayfaring Stranger
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 26 Jul 00 - 11:20 AM

One of the great things about this forum is that it reminds me of songs I knew years ago and have forgotten. Didn't Burl Ives do this in that decade I tend to regress to ? Over the couple of years I've been 'catting I've built up quite a folder of songs I had forgotten or only half-remembered. (Not that I ever get a chance to sing them of course!).
RtS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wayfaring Stranger
From: QRS
Date: 26 Jul 00 - 10:48 AM

Thanks Catters for your help with this song!

And I agree.. It is a great song" One of the best and most "magical" songs I have ever heard..

Nice to have ya all here to help me when I´m stuck in music world Catters!

Regards

QRS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wayfaring Stranger
From: Willie-O
Date: 20 Jul 00 - 09:04 AM

Gogi Grant--The Wayward Wind--great stuff, especially for the fifties. (Weird name though) Think I'll sing it tomorrow! AND Wayfaring Stranger. It's hard for me to understand my attachment to this song--I guess I like the dark juicy melody/chords and the stuff about the bloodwashed band--gospel with guts. Also the way the words fit rhythmically into the melody makes it easy to sing with passion. Even for an atheist. I guess it's kind of like not having to be a fisherman or a Newfoundlander to sing "We'll Rant and We'll Roar"....

Willie-O

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wayfaring Stranger
From: Allan C.
Date: 20 Jul 00 - 08:38 AM

Sorry, QRS, I knew you had been around awhile but there are some who have been here a long time and still haven't discovered all the wonders contained herein. For the record, it took me a bit to find the song as well. I first searched the alpha listing under W and came up with nothing. Then I figured out that it must be called something else and so did the other kind of search.

Glad to see these other lyrics, OKm. This has always been one of my favorite songs. I grew up listening to a recording of Gogi Grant singing it. (Anyone remember her? - her big hit was "The Wayward Wind").

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wayfaring Stranger
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Jul 00 - 09:34 PM

...and, as a result of the failure of QRS's search, we ended up with an extra verse, which will be added to the database. Good thing you asked, QRS.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wayfaring Stranger
From: QRS
Date: 19 Jul 00 - 09:16 PM

Thanks for the lyrics "Okiemockbird"!!

Allan C: Sorry, but I did a search before but i could not find it.. maybe I was spelling wrong or something..(Did find it in the database now :) And just to make one thing clear: I Always look in that Database before i post a mes here.. We always do.. I have been here for almost two years now (not posting for a year now) so I know very well about all songs in the database..

Regards

QRS

Subject: Lyr Add: WAYFARING STRANGER^^
From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird)
Date: 19 Jul 00 - 08:13 PM

Here are the words as they appear in C. H. Cayce, The Good Old Songs, Thornton, Arkansas, 1914, which differs in some details from the DT version:

WAYFARING STRANGER

I am a poor, wayfaring stranger,
while trav'ling 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 only going over Jordan,
I'm only going over home.

I know dark clouds will gather round me,
I know my way is rough and steep;
Yet beauteous fields lie just before me,
Where God's redeemed their vigils keep,
I'm going there to see my mother,
she said she'd meet me when I come,
I'm only going over Jordan,
I'm only going over home.

I'll soon be freed from every trial,
My body sleep in the church-yard,
I'll drop the cross of self-denial,
and enter on my great reward,
I'm going there to see my class mates,
Who've gone before me one by one,
I'm only going over Jordan,
I'm only going over home.

I want to wear a crown of glory,
when I get home to that good land,
I want to shout salvation's story,
in concert with the blood-washed band,
I'm going there to see my Savior,
To sing his praise forever more,
I'm only going over Jordan,
I'm only going over home.

T. ^^

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wayfaring Stranger
From: Morticia
Date: 19 Jul 00 - 07:55 PM

have you tried the digitrad lyric database, yet? If you have and can't find them, I have them, although I suspect there are a number of versions.......anyway let me know, if you can't find them there, I'll post them in a PM. As far as I'm aware it's a trad.spiritual.......but there is almost always someone here who knows more than I do :)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wayfaring Stranger
From: Allan C.
Date: 19 Jul 00 - 07:53 PM

If you go to the main forum page you will see a marvelous blue box into which you should type the word, WAYFARING. Then start the search. You'll find that song and about 8,000 others that way.

Subject: Wayfaring Stranger
From: QRS
Date: 19 Jul 00 - 07:49 PM

Anyone who knows the lyrics to the Song "Wayfaring Stranger"? I heard a nice version of it with the band "16 horsepower" some days ago.. I have heard it before.. Is it a trad. song?

Regards

QRS