Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal ‎#444

444. I'm a Pilgrim

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.

Refrain
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!
O, my longing heart, my longing heart is there;
Here in this country so dark and dreary,
I long have wandered forlorn and weary. [Refrain]

3 There’s the city to which I journey;
My Redeemer, my Redeemer is its light!
There is no sorrow, nor any sighing,
Nor any tears there, or any dying. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger
• Title: I'm a Pilgrim
• Author: Mary S. B. Dana (1810-1883) (1841)
• Refrain First Line: I’m a pilgrim, and I’m a stranger
• Meter: 9.11.10.10.Ref.
• Publication Date: 1985
• Topic: Early Advent

Tune Information

• Name: [I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger]
• Meter: 9.11.10.10.Ref.
• Incipit: 12311 12354 25433
• Key: F Major or modal
• Source: Arr. from an Italian air