The New Sabbath School Hosanna ‎#43a

43a. I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger

1 I’m a pilgrim, and I’m a stranger;
I can tarry, I can tarry but a night.
Do not detain me, for I am going
To where the fountains are ever flowing.
I’m a pilgrim, and I’m a stranger;
I can tarry, I can tarry but a night.

2 There the glory is ever shining;
I am longing, I am longing for the night,
Here in this country so dark and dreary
I have been wandered forlorn and weary,
I'm a pilgrim, and I’m a stranger;
I can tarry, I can tarry but a night.

3 There’s the city to which I journey;
My Redeemer, my Redeemer is its light;
There is no sorrow, nor any sighing,
There is no sin there, nor any dying.
I’m a pilgrim, and I’m a stranger;
I can tarry, I can tarry but a night.

Text Information

• First Line: I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger
• Publication Date: 1870
• Notes: Now Public Domain. Tune for 330 in "American Sunday School Hymn Book" (ASS1860a)

Tune Information

• Name: PILGRIM
• Key: G Major or modal
• Notes: Public Domain.