I WONDER AS I WANDER
(John Jacob Niles / Traditional)

Jo Stafford - 1950
Joan Baez - 1966
Barbra Steisand - 1967
Sandi Patty - 1974
Barbara Hendricks - 1995
Jewel - 1999

Also recorded by: 
John Raitt; Jeanne Cotter; Peter, Paul & Mary; Larry Dalton; 
Linda Ronstadt; Glenn Yarbrough; Kathleen Battle; 
Theresa Donohoo; Rita Costanzi; John Aldis. 


I wonder as I wander out under the sky, 
How Jesus the Savior did come for to die. 
For poor on'ry people like you and like I... 
I wonder as I wander out under the sky. 

When Mary birthed Jesus 'twas in a cow's stall, 
With wise men and farmers and shepherds and all. 
But high from God's heaven a star's light did fall, 
And the promise of ages it then did recall. 

If Jesus had wanted for any wee thing, 
A star in the sky, or a bird on the wing, 
Or all of God's angels in heav'n for to sing, 
He surely could have it, 'cause he was the King.