{"id":6961,"date":"1997-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1997-05-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-11-07T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T14:14:52","slug":"wayfaring-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6961","title":{"rendered":"Wayfaring Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Folkden_Podcast_Art.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"220\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Wayfare.mp3\">Wayfaring Stranger<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">This song was passed around by word of mouth,<br \/>\nthroughout the Appalachain Mountains for many years. Its roots are<br \/>\npossibly from an old Irish tune. The singer is taking comfort in his<br \/>\nfaith that the temporal aspects of this life are but for a moment, and<br \/>\nthat an incalculably more pleasant eternity lies ahead.<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[Em]I am a poor [Am] wayfaring [Em] stranger<br \/>\nWandering [Am] through this world of [Em] woe<br \/>\nBut there&#8217;s no sorrow, [Am] toil or [Em] danger<br \/>\nIn that bright [Am] land to which [Em] I go<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m [G] going [C] there to see my [G] father<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going [C] there no more to [G] roam<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just a [Am] going over [Em] Jordan<br \/>\nI&#8217;m only [Am] going over [Em] home<\/p>\n<p>I know dark clouds will gather &#8217;round me<br \/>\nI know myway is rough and steep<br \/>\nBut golden fields lie out before me<br \/>\nWhere all the saints their vigils keep<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going there to see my mother<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going there no more to roam<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just a going over Jordan<br \/>\nI&#8217;m only going over home<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going there to see my Saviour<br \/>\nTo sing His praise forevermore<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just a going over Jordan<br \/>\nI&#8217;m only going over home<\/p>\n<p>\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd 1998 McGuinn Music \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Roger McGuinn<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Wayfaring Stranger This song was passed around by word of mouth, throughout the Appalachain Mountains for many years. Its roots are possibly from an old Irish tune. The singer is taking comfort in his faith that the temporal aspects of this life are but for a moment, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6961\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wayfaring Stranger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountainsouthernus","category-spiritual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8509,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions\/8509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}