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Wayfaring Stranger
02:55
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WAYFARING STRANGER
I am a poor wayfaring stranger
Traveling through this wearisome land
And there’s no sickness, no toil or danger
In that bright land to where I’m bound
Going there to see my Father
Going there no more to roam
I’m only going over Jordan
Going there to my new home
I know dark clouds, they’ll gather o’er me
I know the way is rough and steep
But beauteous fields lie just before me
Where God’s redeemed their vigils keep
Going there to see my Mother
She said she’d meet me when I come
I’m only going over Jordan
Going there to my new home
Going there to meet my Savior
Going there no more to roam
I’m only going over Jordan
Going there to my new home
(Public Domain/Arrangement Stephen Hardy Palmer)
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A Thousand Miles Or More
03:35
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A Thousand Miles Or More
Can you hear the wind come?
It's calling at your door
It comes from very far away
A thousand miles or more...
Will it bring you sweet dreams?
Will it ease your fears?
Will it bring a true love
To see you through the years?
(oooh...)
My love she was a rainbow
She shone on all around
She coloured up the new sky
When the storm was done
So I took me a ladder
And I climbed the highest rung
I picked me a sweetheart
And claimed her for my own
(oooh...)
Claimed her for my own
Claimed her for my own
I picked me a sweetheart
Claimed her for my own
Can you taste the water?
It's cool and it's clean
It comes on down the mountain
To this stubborn stream
My life is like that river
Every day's a stone
Some I only cast away
Some I'd want to hold
(oooh...)
A thousand miles or more
A thousand miles or more
You can hear the wind come
A thousand miles or more
(S H Palmer 2022)
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Southern Angel
02:50
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SOUTHERN ANGEL
Southern Angel she don’t sing
But she can make that banjo ring
High and Lonesome
Pick it sad and play it sweet
She can make that banjo weep
High and Lonesome
These hotel walls are cheap
But that don’t bother me
I don’t need no sleep
When ev’ry note’s in harmony
Pick it sad and play it sweet
She can play the Blues for me
High and Lonesome
Wishin’ I could be there too
Pick away the whole night thru
Heartbroke and lovesick blues
3 chords and there’s the truth
Pick it sad and play it sweet
She can make that banjo weep
High and Lonesome
Southern Angel she don’t sing
But she can make that banjo ring
High and Lonesome
(S H Palmer)
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Bye & Bye
03:09
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BYE AND BYE
She don’t like it when it’s cloudy
She says clouds can turn to rain
Ah but when the sky turns sunny
Then I’ll see her smile again
First the clouds and then the rain
Then I know she’ll smile again
Very soon we’ll be together
She’ll come to me - Bye and Bye
She’s got a brand new way of flying
Man your feet don’t touch the ground
Take you all the way to China
Hold on tight and don’t look down
Lift you up and take you high
Up into the clear blue sky
You’ll be wishin’ you could stay forever
Up there in the bye and bye
By and By there’ll come a time
When her heart will beat with mine
Oh how that sun will shine
She’ll come to me -Bye and Bye
Now the geese may fly off for the winter
They might come back in the spring
Ah but when the cold is bitter
Then I’ll need her home again
Sometimes on the darkest night
I can hear her lullaby
Then I know we’ll be together
She’ll come to me -Bye and Bye
By and By there’ll come a day
When I know her heart will stay
Ah those clouds, they’ll roll away
Come tomorrow, come what may
By and By her heart will stay
(S H Palmer)
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Stephen Hardy Palmer Gatineau, Québec
‘There are miles in Palmer’s voice; you can almost see the scenery that his mind has captured through the decades of his life. Palmer’s songwriting and guitar playing are tasteful and bittersweet, his music is crafted with feeling and poetic flair. I’m reminded of another acoustic icon, Gordon Lightfoot.”- TwangTown Magazine ... more
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