Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
Sandburg writes: "One service performed by George Pullen Jackson's book "Spiritual Folksongs of Early America" was the bringing to light and making available many songs reposing in old and scarce religious songbooks of a hundred years ago and still earlier. We have here one of the earliest versions of the "Poor Wayfaring Stranger."
"A later version of THE WAYFARING STRANGER puts the heavy accent on misery in the present world rather than another happier realm in an afterworld."
Theres two versions are combined in this recording.
Sandburg writes: "One service performed by George Pullen Jackson's book "Spiritual Folksongs of Early America" was the bringing to light and making available many songs reposing in old and scarce religious songbooks of a hundred years ago and still earlier. We have here one of the earliest versions of the "Poor Wayfaring Stranger."
"A later version of THE WAYFARING STRANGER puts the heavy accent on misery in the present world rather than another happier realm in an afterworld."
Theres two versions are combined in this recording.
