My friends, I am going a long and tedious journey

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My friends, I am going a long and tedious journey

Tune: FAREWELL ANTHEM
Published in 6 hymnals

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My friends, I am going a long and tedious journey,
Never to return; I am going a long journey, never to return.
I am going a long journey, Never to return.
(Repeat previous line).
215
Never to return, never to return, never to return;
Never, never never, never, to return;
Fare you well, my friends.
(Repeat previous line twice),
And God grant we may meet together in that world above,
Where trouble shall cease and harmony shall abound,
216
Hark! hark! my dear friends, for death hath called me,
And I must go, and lie down in the cold and silent grave,
Where the mourners cease from mourning, and the prisoner is set free;
Where the rich and poor are both alike;
Fare you well, fare you well, fare you well, fare you well,
Fare you well, my friends.

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First Line:	My friends, I am going a long and tedious journey
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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FAREWELL ANTHEM

Originally published in The New American Melody, 1789, pp. 97-100. Words first appearing in this book as well; they may be by Jacob French. Reprinted with some modifications in William Walker's Southern Harmony, 1835, and in The Sacred Harp, page 216 from 1844 to the present. –Jones, Daniel C. L.,…

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