I AM A PILGRIM
(Merle Travis)

Merle Travis

Also recorded by: Chet Atkins; Johnny Cash; The Country Gentlemen;
Charlie Daniels; Tennessee Ernie Ford; The Goins Brothers;
Grandpa Jones & Ramona; Ernie Hawkins; Rob Ickes; Marley's Ghost;
John McEuen; Bill Monroe.


I am a pilgrim, and a stranger - travelling through this wearisome land. 
But I've got a home - in that yonder city, Yes  Lord! 
In that house - not made with hands. 

I'll see my father, mother, sister and brother - when I leave this world of woe. 
And there I'll greet my Lord and Savior - in that land to which I go. 
Dear friends I'll greet - when I cross over, and I reach that distant shore. 
With songs of joy - we'll sing his praises, and there we'll dwell forever more. 

I'm going down - to the river of Jordan, just to ease my  troubled soul. 
If I could touch - but the hem of his garment, I do believe I could be made whole.

(repeat 1st verse)