Waitin Around To Die

by Townes Van Zandt

Date Added
8/11/2025
**Chords:**
       G        C       G
       G        C       G
       C       G       D
       C       G       D

       G                          C              G
I’m just a poor wayfaring stranger
       G                          C           G
Traveling through this world of woe
       C                       G              D
But there’s no sickness, toil, or danger
       C                   G                D
In that bright land to which I go

       G                          C              G
I’m going there to see my mother
       G                     C           G
She said she’d meet me when I come
       C                     G             D
I’m only going over Jordan
       C                   G                D
I’m only going over home

       G                          C              G
I know dark clouds will gather 'round me
       G                          C           G
I know my way is rough and steep
       C                          G              D
But beauty’s fields lie just before me
       C                   G                D
Where God’s redeemed, their vigils keep

       G                          C              G
I’m going there to see my mother
       G                     C           G
She said she’d meet me when I come
       C                     G             D
I’m only going over Jordan
       C                   G                D
I’m only going over home