I'm A Pilgrim
- Words:
- Mary S. B. Dana
- Music:
- Italian Air
Sheet music
- 1I’m a pilgrim and I’m a stranger;I can tarry, I can tarry but a night.Do not detain me, for I am goingTo where the fountains are ever flowing.I’m a pilgrim, and I’m a stranger;I can tarry, I can tarry but a night.
- 2Of that city to which I journey,My Redeemer, my Redeemer is the light.There is no sorrow, nor any sighingNor any tears there, nor any dying.I’m a pilgrim, and I’m a stranger;I can tarry, I can tarry but a night.
- 3There the sunbeams are ever shining;O my longing heart, my longing heart is there.Here in this country, so dark and dreary.I long have wandered, forlorn and weary.I’m a pilgrim, and I’m a stranger;I can tarry, I can tarry but a night.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1841, the words are in 422 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.