Natalie Merchant Lyrics

Album: The House Carpenter's Daughter

Poor Wayfaring Stranger Lyrics

I am a poor wayfaring stranger

 Travelling through this world of woe

 But there's no sickness, toil or danger

 In that bright land to which I go 

 

 Well I'm going there

 To meet my mother

 Said she'd meet me when I come

 I'm only going over Jordan

 I'm only going over home 

 

 I know dark clouds

 Will gather 'round me 

 I know my way

 Will be rough and steep

 But beautiful fields lie just before me

 Where God's redeemed

 Their vigils keep 

 

 Well I'm going there

 To meet my loved ones

 Gone on before me, one by one

 I'm only going over Jordan

 I'm only going over home 

 

 I'll soon be free of earthy trials

 My body rest in the old church yard

 I'll drop this cross of self-denial

 And I'll go singing home to God 

 

 Well I'm going there

 To meet my Savior

 Dwell with Him and never roam

 I'm only going over Jordan

 I'm only going over home