Wayfarin' Stranger-Spearhead

[ti:Wayfarin' Stranger] [ar:Spearhead] [al:Chocolate Supa Highway] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.18]Wayfarin' Stranger - Spearhead [00:00.79]Written by：Joan Osborne/Michael Franti [00:02.00]I'm just a poor wayfarin' stranger [00:05.84] [00:07.52]Traveling through this world of woe [00:12.34] [00:13.72]There's no sickness toll nor sorrow [00:19.39] [00:20.37]In that bright world to which I go [00:25.76] [00:27.03]I'm going there to see my father [00:32.51] [00:33.72]I'm goin' there no more to roam [00:39.08] [00:40.43]I'm just a goin' over Jordan [00:45.80] [00:47.16]I'm just a goin' over home [00:52.43] [00:54.05]Ya see I'm a concrete buffalo soldier [00:57.79] [00:58.85]I gotta chip it's like boulder in my shoulder [01:01.44] [01:02.03]Look in my eyes and you can see a red marble [01:04.66] [01:05.52]Like Nostradamus I'm the promise of tomorrow [01:08.12] [01:08.68]Traveling the city with my Mexican cargo [01:11.32] [01:11.85]Cotton mouth I take a dry swallow [01:14.81] [01:15.39]To the nearest corner watering hole [01:17.84] [01:18.37]The bartender with the deed for my soul [01:21.78]Satisfaction no I can't get no [01:25.51]Lotta bad habits that I need to control [01:28.16] [01:28.88]Recite the salts but no emancipation [01:31.73] [01:32.28]Church for food and liquor stores for salvation [01:34.80] [01:35.60]Some day I'll make [01:36.91]It home to see my father [01:38.20] [01:38.90]He saw the man who shot the coal mine's daughter [01:41.59] [01:42.14]And if I had a dime for every gamble I risked [01:45.00]I could buy a diamond for the woman I miss ya see [01:48.31] [01:48.91]I'm just a poor wayfarin' stranger [01:51.68] [01:52.32]Ya check with me ya checking in with the danger [01:54.96] [01:55.56]I'm just a poor wayfarin' stranger [01:58.28] [01:58.89]Roaming the streets seeking Jesus in a manger [02:02.10]I'm goin' there to see my mother [02:06.19] [02:07.39]She said she'll meet me when I come [02:12.92] [02:14.01]I'm just a goin' over Jordan I'm just a goin' over home [02:25.79] [02:31.33]Jordan river roll river Jordan roll river Jordan roll on [02:41.08] [02:42.34]Gee ain't it funny how time slips away I wanna [02:45.79]Rewind the tape to see my life replay [02:48.22] [02:48.73]I sock up the sun just as a reminder [02:51.68] [02:52.26]That I was born a sick side winder [02:55.07] [02:55.60]Call me a vagrant no machine to read your fax [02:58.52] [02:59.18]I'll never pledge allegiance to your blood sweat and taxes [03:02.32]Don't ever mistake me being docile for contentment [03:05.50]Don't ever mistake my anger for resentment [03:08.25] [03:08.78]It's just the calm before the storm that's why I'm quite [03:12.23]Ya always mistaking an upraising for a race riot [03:15.77]You can take my life but there's no escape [03:18.67]'Cause you can't shoot yer way through the pearly gates [03:21.76]So swing low sweet Cadillac [03:24.33] [03:24.89]Coming for to carry me home [03:27.64] [03:28.56]Swing low pink Cadillac [03:31.42] [03:32.29]Stepping over Jordan I roam [03:34.32] [03:35.09]Ya see [03:35.86]I'm just a poor wayfarin' stranger [03:38.94]Ya check with me ya checking in with danger [03:41.91] [03:42.55]I'm just a poor wayfarin' stranger [03:45.19] [03:45.87]Roaming the streets seeking Jesus in a manger [03:48.51] [03:49.10]I'm goin' there to see my father [03:53.49] [03:54.43]I'm goin' there no more to roam [03:59.94] [04:01.03]I'm just a goin' over Jordan [04:06.48] [04:07.67]I'm just a goin' over home [04:13.03] [04:22.19]When the road is callin' yonder [04:27.53] [04:28.54]When the road is callin' yonder [04:33.67] [04:34.45]When the road is callin' [04:38.93] [04:41.73]When the road is callin' yonder [04:44.61] [04:45.45]I'll be there [04:46.61] [04:48.60]I'm goin' there to see my father [04:53.98] [04:54.65]I'm goin' there no more to roam [05:00.14] [05:01.27]I'm just a goin' over Jordan [05:06.95] [05:07.90]I'm just a goin' over home