Poor Wayfaring Stranger

Key of Em · Chords: III V VI i iv

# Tabbed by Cade/Keith
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Also called “I’m a PWS”, “The WS” “Wayfaring Pilgrim”

Song is 200 years old, so verses change over time

Modeled after Bill Monroe & Bluegrass Boys, Abm

Verse

           Em
I’m just a poor wayfaring stranger
          Am                 B7
Traveling through this world below
           Em
There’s no sickness, toil nor danger
               Am              Em
In that bright land to which I go

Chorus

          C              G
I'm goin' home to see my mother (father)
          C                B7
I'm goin' home, no more to roam
           Em
I’m just a goin' over Jordan
          Am         Em
I’m just  goin' over home

Verse

I know dark clouds will gather around me
I know my way is rough and steep
But golden fields lie out before me
Where weary eyes no more will weep

Verse

I'll soon be free from every trial
This form shall rest beneath the sod
I'll drop the cross of self-denial
And enter in that home with God

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