I'm just a poor wayfarin' strangernTravelin through this world of woenTher's no sickness toll nor sorrownIn that bright world to which I gonI'm going there to see my fathernI'm goin' there no more to roamnI'm just a goin' over JordannI'm just a goin' over homennYa see I'm a concrete buffalo soldiernI gotta chip it's like boulder in my shouldernLook in my eyes and you can see a red marblenLike Nostradamus I'm the promise of tomorrownTraveling the city with my Mexican cargonCotton mouth, I take a dry swallownTo the nearest corner watering holenThe bartender with the deed for my soulnSatisfaction no I can't get nonLotsa bad habits that I need to controlnRecite the psalms but no emancipationnChurch for food and liquor stores for salvationnSome day I'll makenIt home to see my fathernHe saw the man who shot the coal mine's daughternAnd if I had a dime for every gamble I riskednI could buy a diamond for the woman I miss ya seennI'm just a poor wayfarin' strangernYa check with me ya checking in with the dangernI'm just a poor wayfarin' strangernRoaming the streets seeking Jesus in a mangernnI'm goin' there to see my mothernShe said she'll meet me when I comenI'm just a goin' over Jordan I'm just a goin' over homenJordan river roll river Jordan roll river Jordan roll onnnGee ain't it funny - how time slips away I wannanRewind the tape to see my life replaynI soak up the sun, just as a remindernThat I was born a sick side windernCall me a vagrant, no machine to read your faxnI'll never pledge allegiance to your blood sweat and taxesnDon't ever mistake me being docile for contentmentnDon't ever mistake my anger for resentmentnnIt's just the calm before the storm that's why I'm quitenYa always mistaking an upraising for a race riotnYou can take my life, but there's no escapen'cause you can't shoot yer way through the pearly gatesnSo swing low sweet cadillacnComing for to carry me homenSwing low pink CadillacnStepping over Jordan I roamnnYa seenI'm just a poor wayfarin' strangernYa check with me ya checking in with dangernI'm just a poor wayfarin' strangernRoaming the streets seeking Jesus in a mangernnI'm goin' there to see my fathernI'm goin' there no more to roamnI'm just a goin' over JordannI'm just a goin' over homennWhen the road is callin' yondernWhen the road is callin' yondernWhen the road is callin'nWhen the road is callin' yondernI'll be therennI'm goin' there to see my fathernI'm goin' there no more to roamnI'm just a goin' over JordannI'm just a goin' over home