Burl Ives

Wayfaring Stranger


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I'm just a poor wayfaring stranger
Traveling through this world of woe
And there's no sickness, no toil, no danger
In that fair land to which I go

I'm going there to see my mother
I'm going there no more to roam
I'm just going over Jordan
I'm just going over home


Writer/s: Dolly / Jerry Reed Hubbard / ON