Wayfarin' Stranger

I'm just a poor wayfarin' stranger

Travelin' through this world of woe

There's no sickness toll nor sorrow

In that bright world to which I go

I'm goin' there to see my father

I'm goin' there no more to roam

I'm just a-goin' over Jordan

I'm just a-goin' over home

Yo, see I'm a concrete buffalo soldier

I got a chip, it's like a boulder on my shoulder

Look in my eyes and you can see a red marble

Like Nostradamus I'm the promise of tomorrow

Travelin' in the city with my Mexican cargo

Cotton mouth, I take a dry swallow

To the nearest corner watering hole

The bartender with the deed for my soul

Satisfaction, no, I can't get no

Lots of bad habits that I need to control

Recite the psalms but no emancipation

Church for food and liquor stores for salvation

Some day I'll make it home to my father

He saw the man who shot the coal miner's daughter

And if I had a dime for every gamble I risked

I could buy a diamond for the woman I miss, you see

I'm just a poor wayfarin' stranger

You check with me, you're checkin' in with danger

I'm just a poor wayfarin' stranger

Roamin' the streets seekin' Jesus in a manger

I-I'm goin' there to see my mother

She said she'd meet me when I come

I'm just a-goin' over Jordan

I'm just a-goin' over home

Over home

Roll, river Jordan, Jordan river

Roll, river Jordan, roll on

Gee, ain't funny how time slips away?

I wanna rewind the tape to see my life replay

I soak up the sun just as a reminder

That I was born a sick sidewinder

Call me a vagrant, no machine to read your fax

I'll never pledge allegiance to your blood, sweat and tax

Don't ever mistake me bein' docile for contentment

Don't ever mistake my anger for resentment

It's just the calm before the storm, that's why I'm quiet

You're always mistakin' an uprisin' for a race riot

You can take my life but there's no escape

'Cause you can't shoot your way through the pearly gates

So swing low sweet Cadillac

Comin' for to carry me home

Swing low pink  Cadillac

Steppin' over Jordan I roam

You see I'm just a poor wayfarin' stranger

You check with me, you're checkin' in with danger

I'm just a poor wayfarin' stranger

Roamin' the streets seekin' Jesus in a manger

I-I-I-I'm goin' there to see my father

I'm goin' there no more to roam

I'm just a-goin' over Jordan

I'm just a-goin' over home

When the road is callin' yonder

When the road is callin' yonder

When the road is callin' yonder

When the road is callin' yonder I'll be there

I-I-I-I'm goin' there to see my father

I'm goin' there no more to roam

I'm just a-goin' over Jordan

I'm just a-goin' over home

Just a-goin' over home