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Wayfaring Stranger - Electric Guitar
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Wayfaring Stranger is an old folk/gospel song that dates back to the same time as “A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief.” Around the early 19th century.
I first covered this song with my bluegrass band Teton Divide back at Ricks College/BYU-Idaho. I was first introduced to Emmylou Harris’ version of this song, which my arrangement is heavily based on.
We ended up playing this at the California Bluegrass Association’s Fathers Day Festival in 2006. I remember afterwards a guy coming up to me and say that when we first started, it stopped him dead in his tracks and he began crying. Honestly, that’s how I feel when playing this song.
If you’ve ever been to one of my devotionals/firesides, you’ve heard my spiel on how I believe music is the biggest evidence we have of a spiritual language. It speaks to your soul because it is the language of the soul. Music is found in all churches and religions for a reason. It allows us to communicate with each other and with God on a different level.
Right now, I feel like Mormon Guitar (yes, I’m keeping the name Mormon. You can email me directly with your disapproval) is my way of showing people of our faith that spiritual music is more than what is just found in our hymnbook. It crosses all religions. And just because it is not in our hymnbook doesn’t make it any less spiritual.
Wayfaring Stranger is about a journey through life. It’s about the longing to be with our parents, our family. I’m at the point in my life now where it feels like I’m losing more family than I’m gaining. So if anything, this song really speaks to me on a spiritual level then it ever has before.
I hope it speaks to you on a spiritual level as well.
I am a poor wayfaring stranger
While traveling through this world of woe
Now there’s no sickness, toil, or danger
In that bright world to which I go
I'm going there to see my Mother
She said she’ll 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 is rough and steep
But beauteous fields lie just before me
Where God's redeemed, their vigils keep
I'm going there to see my Father
I’m going there no more to roam
I’m only going over Jordan
I’m only going over home
I first covered this song with my bluegrass band Teton Divide back at Ricks College/BYU-Idaho. I was first introduced to Emmylou Harris’ version of this song, which my arrangement is heavily based on.
We ended up playing this at the California Bluegrass Association’s Fathers Day Festival in 2006. I remember afterwards a guy coming up to me and say that when we first started, it stopped him dead in his tracks and he began crying. Honestly, that’s how I feel when playing this song.
If you’ve ever been to one of my devotionals/firesides, you’ve heard my spiel on how I believe music is the biggest evidence we have of a spiritual language. It speaks to your soul because it is the language of the soul. Music is found in all churches and religions for a reason. It allows us to communicate with each other and with God on a different level.
Right now, I feel like Mormon Guitar (yes, I’m keeping the name Mormon. You can email me directly with your disapproval) is my way of showing people of our faith that spiritual music is more than what is just found in our hymnbook. It crosses all religions. And just because it is not in our hymnbook doesn’t make it any less spiritual.
Wayfaring Stranger is about a journey through life. It’s about the longing to be with our parents, our family. I’m at the point in my life now where it feels like I’m losing more family than I’m gaining. So if anything, this song really speaks to me on a spiritual level then it ever has before.
I hope it speaks to you on a spiritual level as well.
I am a poor wayfaring stranger
While traveling through this world of woe
Now there’s no sickness, toil, or danger
In that bright world to which I go
I'm going there to see my Mother
She said she’ll 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 is rough and steep
But beauteous fields lie just before me
Where God's redeemed, their vigils keep
I'm going there to see my Father
I’m going there no more to roam
I’m only going over Jordan
I’m only going over home
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