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"The Wayfaring Stranger" (aka "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" or "I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger”) is a well-known American folk and gospel son. It probably originated in the early 19th century. As with most folk songs, many variations of the lyrics exist.

Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.^[2] Wayfaring Stranger was used in the films Cold Mountain and How The West Was Won from 1963^[7]

^{Here are the complete lyrics according to Wikipedia.} 

I'm just a poor wayfaring stranger
Traveling through this world of woe
There's no sickness, toil nor danger
In that fair land to which I go
I'm going there to see 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 know dark clouds will hover o'er me
I know my path way is rough and steep
But golden fields lie out before me
Where weary eyes no more will weep
I'm going there to see my mother
She said she'd meet me when I come
I'm only going over Jordan
I'm only going over home

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

I'm going there to see my Saviour
I'm going home no more to roam
I'm just a-going over Jordan

I'm just a-going over home

• It became one of Burl Ives's signature songs, included on his 1944 album The Wayfaring Stranger. Ives used it as the title of his early 1940s CBS radio show and his 1948 autobiography. He became known as "The Wayfaring Stranger"^{[citation needed]}.
• Joan Baez included the song on her 1969 album David's Album.
• American singer-songwriter Eva Cassidy covers "Wayfaring Stranger" in her 1998 album Songbird.
• Johnny Cash recorded the song for American III: Solitary Man in 2000, credited as being traditional.
• 16 Horsepower, an American alternative country music group, recorded a version as part of their 2000 album Secret South.
• Giant Sand, covered this song on their 2001 album Cover Magazine. The song slightly evolves on a cover of Fly Me to the Moon
• Emmylou Harris covered the song on her 1980 album Roses in the Snow. Harris' version peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.^[3] It reached number 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.^[4]
• The American hip-hop band Spearhead included a modern overhaul of the song on their 1997 albumChocolate Supa Highway.
• In 2010, the Norwegian progressive death metal band In Vain covered the song on their album Mantra as a hidden track on the end of the album, credited as being traditional. Despite being a progressive death metal band, the tracks style is more like the original country folk song, with just acoustic guitars and two voices.
• British folk legends Eliza Carthy and Norma Waterson included a version of the song on their 2010 mother-daughter album Gift, including harmony vocals from Marry Waterson.
• Canadian singer Neil Young covered "Wayfarin' Stranger" on his 2012 album Americana.
• In her 2005 song "Travelin' Thru", which she composed for the soundtrack to the film Transamerica, Dolly Parton references "Wayfaring Stranger", including imagery from the song in her composition.
• American psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft recorded the song for their eponymous début album.
• American sing-songwriter Robert Earl Keen recorded a bluegrass cover of the song for his 2015 release,Happy Prisoner. The recording is a duet with singer Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks.
• Singer/Songwriter Ed Sheeran covers Wayfaring Stranger in 2011.
• Singer Outlaw (Terry Pugh) covers Wayfaring Stranger in his 2012 album "Old Friends".
• Greek born vocalist Panayotis Terzakis included the song in his own arrangement (whisper mix) in the digital EP "Free"(2012). It has become a highlight in his appearances and has made the song known in Greece.
• English boys choir Libera covers the song for their US tour, and the concert in Washington D.C. recorded to be the album Angels Sing: Libera in America^[5]
• Singer/actor Steve Earle covers Wayfaring Stranger in the 2015 film "The World made Straight".
• Singer/Songwriter Ricky Travers covers Wayfaring Stranger in the 2015 on Country and Western events in Belgium.
• In 1935 an arrangement was included in The Sacred Harp shape note songbook ("Wayfaring Stranger 457").
• Frankie Laine covers Wayfaring Stranger on his 1962 album "Call of the Wild"
• In 2012, electronic music producer Pretty Lights covered "Wayfaring Stranger", making a collaboration with american bluegrass musician Dr Ralph Stanley and country singer LeAnn Rimes. The track was made for musical documentary Re:GENERATION Music Project, which describes the process of making music by artists coming from two different musical backgrouds. The resulting track is genre mash-up, combining electronic, bass-driven music with bluegrass & pop feel.