Wayfaring stranger by T. Farkas

Wayfaring stranger by Tamas Farkas in 2009
Charles David Tillman was responsible for publicizing the lyrics of "I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger" from Bever's Christian Songster (1858) together with two additional stanzas from Taylor's Revival Hymns & Plantation Melodies (1882) and popularizing the combination with the minor key tune of various African American and Appalachian nuance. The combination is so hauntingly striking and memorable that the tune itself has been widely recognized as POOR WAYFARING STRANGER or just WAYFARING STRANGER ever since Tillman spread it beyond the Sacred Harp tradition in his Revival songbook of 1891. It has been frequently analyzed, arranged and recorded, its artists including Burl Ives, Joan Baez, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Johnny Cash, Dusty Springfield, Emmy Lou Harris, Bill Monroe, Jack White and Peter, Paul and Mary.

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• guitar
• gitár
• acustic
• akusztikus
• Wayfaring
• stranger
• Tamas
• Farkas
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• 2009
• country
• ballad
• spiritual
• folk
• song