Wayfarin' Stranger-Michael Franti & Spearhead/Michael Franti/Spearhead

[ti:Wayfarin' Stranger] [ar:Spearhead] [al:Chocolate Supa Highway] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Wayfarin' Stranger - Michael Franti/Spearhead [00:01.01]Written by：Joan Osborne/Michael Franti [00:02.02]I'm just a poor wayfarin' stranger [00:05.85] [00:07.54]Traveling through this world of woe [00:12.36] [00:13.73]There's no sickness toll nor sorrow [00:19.40] [00:20.38]In that bright world to which I go [00:25.77] [00:27.04]I'm going there to see my father [00:32.52] [00:33.74]I'm goin' there no more to roam [00:39.10] [00:40.45]I'm just a goin' over Jordan [00:45.81] [00:47.17]I'm just a goin' over home [00:52.44] [00:54.06]Ya see I'm a concrete buffalo soldier [00:57.80] [00:58.86]I gotta chip it's like boulder in my shoulder [01:01.45] [01:02.05]Look in my eyes and you can see a red marble [01:04.68] [01:05.53]Like Nostradamus I'm the promise of tomorrow [01:08.13] [01:08.70]Traveling the city with my Mexican cargo [01:11.33] [01:11.86]Cotton mouth I take a dry swallow [01:14.82] [01:15.40]To the nearest corner watering hole [01:17.86] [01:18.38]The bartender with the deed for my soul [01:21.79]Satisfaction no I can't get no [01:25.52]Lotta bad habits that I need to control [01:28.17] [01:28.89]Recite the salts but no emancipation [01:31.74] [01:32.30]Church for food and liquor stores for salvation [01:34.82] [01:35.62]Some day I'll make [01:36.92]It home to see my father [01:38.22] [01:38.91]He saw the man who shot the coal mine's daughter [01:41.60] [01:42.15]And if I had a dime for every gamble I risked [01:45.02]I could buy a diamond for the woman I miss ya see [01:48.32] [01:48.92]I'm just a poor wayfarin' stranger [01:51.69] [01:52.33]Ya check with me ya checking in with the danger [01:54.98] [01:55.58]I'm just a poor wayfarin' stranger [01:58.29] [01:58.90]Roaming the streets seeking Jesus in a manger [02:02.11]I'm goin' there to see my mother [02:06.20] [02:07.41]She said she'll meet me when I come [02:12.93] [02:14.02]I'm just a goin' over Jordan I'm just a goin' over home [02:25.80] [02:31.34]Jordan river roll river Jordan roll river Jordan roll on [02:41.09] [02:42.36]Gee ain't it funny how time slips away I wanna [02:45.80]Rewind the tape to see my life replay [02:48.23] [02:48.74]I sock up the sun just as a reminder [02:51.69] [02:52.28]That I was born a sick side winder [02:55.09] [02:55.61]Call me a vagrant no machine to read your fax [02:58.54] [02:59.19]I'll never pledge allegiance to your blood sweat and taxes [03:02.33]Don't ever mistake me being docile for contentment [03:05.52]Don't ever mistake my anger for resentment [03:08.26] [03:08.80]It's just the calm before the storm that's why I'm quite [03:12.25]Ya always mistaking an upraising for a race riot [03:15.78]You can take my life but there's no escape [03:18.68]'Cause you can't shoot yer way through the pearly gates [03:21.78]So swing low sweet Cadillac [03:24.34] [03:24.90]Coming for to carry me home [03:27.66] [03:28.58]Swing low pink Cadillac [03:31.43] [03:32.30]Stepping over Jordan I roam [03:34.33] [03:35.11]Ya see [03:35.87]I'm just a poor wayfarin' stranger [03:38.95]Ya check with me ya checking in with danger [03:41.93] [03:42.57]I'm just a poor wayfarin' stranger [03:45.21] [03:45.89]Roaming the streets seeking Jesus in a manger [03:48.53] [03:49.11]I'm goin' there to see my father [03:53.50] [03:54.45]I'm goin' there no more to roam [03:59.95] [04:01.04]I'm just a goin' over Jordan [04:06.50] [04:07.68]I'm just a goin' over home [04:13.04] [04:22.20]When the road is callin' yonder [04:27.54] [04:28.55]When the road is callin' yonder [04:33.69] [04:34.46]When the road is callin' [04:38.95] [04:41.75]When the road is callin' yonder [04:44.63] [04:45.47]I'll be there [04:46.62] [04:48.61]I'm goin' there to see my father [04:54.00] [04:54.67]I'm goin' there no more to roam [05:00.15] [05:01.28]I'm just a goin' over Jordan [05:06.96] [05:07.91]I'm just a goin' over home