Wayfaring Stranger

[stevenmando]

Hi does anyone have the mandolin cords for wayfaring stranger , been looking online and can't find them .

[texaspaul]

I use Am, Dm, (chorus) C, F, Em

[Gary Hedrick]

Another version of it starts in E minor goes to A minor.....on the chorus starts in E minor and then goes to E major for part of it and then back to E minor.

This is a more old timey version of it...

[stevenmando]

Much thanks to all and now to get to playing this great song

[AlanN]

Yes, Gary's is the old time, hard core grassy way. Monroe and Rowan did it that way back then, raised the hairs right off the back of neck and sent little girls and dogs running...

[Meadowview]

Check out this site-------------------
http://www.classic-country-song-lyrics.com/


Wayfaring Stranger
Recorded by Emmylou Harris

Am
I am a poor wayfaring stranger
Dm Am
While traveling through this world of woe
D7
Yet there's no sickness toil nor danger
Dm G Am
In that bright world to which I go

F C
I'm going there to see my Father
F C E7
I'm going there no more to roam
Am
I'm only going over Jordan
Dm E7 Am
I'm only going over home


I know dark clouds will gather round me
Dm Am
I know my way is rough and steep
D7
Yet beauteous fields rise before me
Dm G Am
Where God redeems there visuals keep

F C
I'm going there to see my mother
F C E7
She said she'd meet me when I come
Am
I'm only going over Jordan
Dm Am
I'm only going over home

[Mike Bunting]

I like this fellers rendition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI92o...FDD07E6FA94C50

[Spruce]

Yes, Gary's is the old time, hard core grassy way. Monroe and Rowan did it that way back then, raised the hairs right off the back of neck and sent little girls and dogs running...

...and apparently everyone else, too...

I think I've seen one attempt to cover the tune in this style over the years, as opposed to the sugared-up version that is so-ooo ubiquitous these days...

[Gary Hedrick]

...and apparently everyone else, too...

I think I've seen one attempt to cover the tune in this style over the years, as opposed to the sugared-up version that is so-ooo ubiquitous these days...

Yeah you're right it isn't the common way......but as Alan said above....that version of Rowan and Monroe was just plain spooky.......if you weren't going to church before you heard it you certainly thought long and hard about going....

and for 45 years my brother and I have been doing it in just that style......duet....the limited chord changes ...

I will have to look through the tapes I have ...I know I have the Rowan version somewhere but just haven't worked through that tape yet.

or I could find the Hedrick Brothers version and really turn off everyone ....

[Spruce]

Spooky...

[Meadowview]

...and apparently everyone else, too...

I think I've seen one attempt to cover the tune in this style over the years, as opposed to the sugared-up version that is so-ooo ubiquitous these days...

I wasn't trying to endorse one version over another, to my knowledge the words and chords are the same in all versions. I just sent the words and chords, but most importantly, I wanted to share the link where I found the words. There is even a link at the bottom of this site to copy the songs and paste them into another site and transpose it to whatever key you want it in.

[jefflester]

I like John Carlini's version that Don Stiernberg plays on.

[bohemianbiker]

Jack White sang this on the soundtrack of Cold Mountain.

I hadn't listened to it in a long time, probably the same year I saw the movie (2004?), and last night on the subway on my way home from work I was flipping thru my albums on itunes looking for something that I hadn't listened to in a while, when I decided to play Cold Mountain. Wayfaring Stranger is the 1st track. Then, later that night I found this thread. Life can be strange like that. Here's a you-tube video of Jack singing it (who is playing mandolin?). bb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZXBw-9gyc0

[tkdboyd]

That would be Mike Compton!
Been to a couple of his workshops, great guy, incredible player. Tons of material out there to listen to, and it is all good!

I think the mandolin player/arranger for the movie was Norman Blake. Can't go wrong with either of those players!

[dcoventry]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYJiMO-Fa24

GREAT version. Give it a try and be open minded.

[bohemianbiker]

That would be Mike Compton!
Been to a couple of his workshops, great guy, incredible player. Tons of material out there to listen to, and it is all good!

I think the mandolin player/arranger for the movie was Norman Blake. Can't go wrong with either of those players!

Thanks for the heads up! Mike's web site says he is coming to the Loudon Bluegrass Festival, which is not far from me, so I may be able to hear him play. (Altho his web site lists the festival as Apr. 10, which I assume is a typo, since the festival's web site says that its' on May 10.) bb

[bohemianbiker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYJiMO-Fa24

GREAT version. Give it a try and be open minded.

Interesting; I have mixed feelings, but I kinda liked it. bb

[bohemianbiker]

That would be Mike Compton!
Been to a couple of his workshops, great guy, incredible player. Tons of material out there to listen to, and it is all good!

I think the mandolin player/arranger for the movie was Norman Blake. Can't go wrong with either of those players!

And in the name of continuing coincidences, I see that Mike Comton's photo is currently on the front page of mandolincafe.com (noting the Bill Monroe mandolin camp in Nashville). bb

[JH Murray]

No mandolin content, but a decent banjo, Neko Case is my modern fave version:

[dcoventry]

Interesting; I have mixed feelings, but I kinda liked it. bb

This really made me smile. Thanks for taking the time to listen and respond.

I use mando for practically everything BUT BG.

[wsugai]

I think that this is a very good version, though I also think that the overdub chorus is way overdone and the banjo interludes should be replaced with a mando. Otherwise, the banjo as background to the vocal is fine. Overall, very nicely done with a good tempo.

No mandolin content, but a decent banjo, Neko Case is my modern fave version:

[AlanN]

Gimme post 10, every day

[tkdboyd]

Gimme post 10, every day

If you haven't listened to it, give the Jack White version a try from post 13. Compton's solo comes in around 1:08 if you want to skip the rest.

[AlanN]

Gimme post 10, every day


just funnin. I listened to the Jack White. Doesn't grab me...but, ymmv, as they say.

[tmsweeney]

I like the Tony Rice version from Cold on the Shoulder, he has Sam and Jerry and Todd Phillips and they go into a way cool "space grass" middle section.

The Natalie Merchant version from the House Carpenter album is very sparse and spooky, I like that one too.