wayfaring stranger

i'm just a poor wayfaring stranger

a-traveling through this world of woe

but there's no sickness

toil nor danger

in that bright world to which i go

i'm going there to meet my father

i'm going there no more to roam

i'm just a-going over jordan

i'm just a-going over home

i'm just a poor and lonesome traveler

behind the mule that's awful slow

a-plowin' on to death and worry

the only place that i can go

i'm going there to meet my father

i'm going there no more to roam

i'm just a-going over jordan

i'm just a-going over home

my father lived and died a farmer

a-reaping less than he did sow

and i just follow in his footsteps

a-knowing less than he did know

i'm going there to meet my father

i'm going there no more to roam

i'm just a-going over jordan

i'm just a-going over home

going over home.