Wayfaring Stranger

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I am a poor wayfaring stranger

Author: Anonymous
Tune: WAYFARING STRANGER
Published in 80 hymnals

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Piano/Organ
	8 Anthems for about 12 Singers (Easy-to-…

Choral
	WAYFARIN' STRANGER

Handbells
	I'M JUST A POOR WAYFARING STRANGER

Representative Text

1 I’m just a poor wayfaring stranger
while journeying through this Land of woe
But there's no sickness toil or danger
In that bright world to which I go.

Chorus:
I’m going there to see my Mother/Father,
she said she'd/he said he'd meet me when I would come.
I’m just a-going over Jordan
I’m just a-going over home.

2 I know dark clouds will gather o’er me,
I know my way lies rough and steep
But Beauteous Fields lie out before me
Where God's redeemed their vigils keep. [Chorus]

Source: The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal: official hymnal of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church #608

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Author: Anonymous

In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries. Go to person page >

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First Line:	I am a poor wayfaring stranger
Title:	Wayfaring Stranger
Author:	Anonymous
Source:	Christian Songster, 1858
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	I'm going there to see my Father
Copyright:	Public Domain