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Deliverance Will Come/Palms of Victory/Wayworn Traveler
Public Domain Old-Time, Bluegrass Gospel; Words & Music: John B. Matthias 1836
ARTIST: As recorded by Uncle Dave Macon
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CATEGORY: Traditional And Public-Domain Gospel;
DATE: 1836
RECORDING INFO: Deliverance Will Come [Me III-A 1] - Mathis, John B.
Rt - Paths of Victory
Pb - Honest Farmer
Benziger, Barbara; & Eleanor Dickinson (eds.) / That Old-Time Religion, Harper & Row, Sof (1975), p 18
Davis, Jeff. Seasons for Singing. A Celebration of Country Life, Revels 1095, CD (1995), trk# 20 (Palms of Victory)
Government Issue Orchestra. Government Issue Orchestra, Cake vs Pie 1, CD (2006), trk# 9 (I Saw a Wayworn Traveler)
Macon, Uncle Dave. Classic Sides 1924-1938, JSP 7729A-D, CD( (2004), trk# B.02 [1926/09/08]
Mulhollan, Fanny. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume IV, Religous Songs and Others, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p 64/#626 [1929/08/06] (Palms of Victory)
Schneyer, Helen Bonchek. Ballads, Broadsides and Hymns, Folk Legacy FSI 050, LP (1974), trk# 1 (Wayworn Traveler)
Watson, Thompson and Craver. Meeting in the Air, Flying Fish FF 219, LP (1980), trk# 6 (Wayworn Traveler)
RELATED TO: Honest Farmer
OTHER NAMES: "The Wayworn Traveler" "Palms of Victory"
SOURCES: Folk Index; Meade
NOTES: "Deliverance Will Come," or "The Wayworn Traveler" or "Palms of Victory" was written by John B Matthias in 1836 (see original lyrics below) and recorded by Uncle Dave Macon in 1926.
According to Hedy West: "... a once popular religious song which tells in compression the same story as Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and which was often printed in pre-Civil War songsters and hymnals in both German and English. It was sometimes attributed to the Methodist circuit-riding preacher John B. Matthias (1767-1848). Wayworn Traveler was several times recorded on hillbilly discs in the 1920s and 1930s. My grandmother heard it and sang it in church when she was a child. It may also have been one of the hymns she heard sung by the community of Germans who had immigrated to Gilmer County, Georgia, around 1900. In church they sang in German while everyone else sang simultaneously in English..."
The tune of this hymn was used by Bob Dylan for his own Paths of Victory.
In the 1880s, the tune was also used by the "People's Plisten for a song depicting the plight of the American Farmer, "Pans of Biscuits."
DELIVERANCE WILL COME- Uncle Dave Macon, 1920s; Transcribed by Willard Johnson & Robert Nobley.
I saw a wayworn traveler in tattered garments clad,
And struggling up the mountain, it seemed that he was sad.
His back was laden heavy, his strength was almost gone,
Yet he shouted as he journeyed ''Deliverance will come!"
CHORUS: Then palms of victory, crowns of glory,
Palms of victory I shall wear.
The songstress in the arbor, that stood beside the way,
Attracted his attention, inviting his delay.
His watchword being "Onward!" he stopped his ears and ran,
Still shouting as he journeyed, ''Deliverance will come!"
I saw him in the evening, the sun was bending low,
He'd over-topped the mountain and reached the vale below.
He saw the golden city, his everlasting home,
And shouted loud, ''Hosanna, deliverance has come!"
I heard the song of triumph they sang upon that shore,
Saying, ''Jesus has redeemed us to suffer nevermore.''
Then casting his eyes back-ward on the race that he had run,
He shouted loud, ''Hosanna, deliverance has come!"
WAYWORN TRAVELER- Original Carter Family, New York, NY, Jun 8, 1936 (Decca De 5240); transcribed by Manfred Helfert.
I saw a wayworn traveler in tattered garments clad,
And struggling up the mountain, it seemed that he was sad.
His back was laden heavy, his strength was almost gone,
Yet shouted as he journeyed, ''Deliverance will come!"
CHORUS: Then palms of victory, crowns of glory,
Palms of victory I shall wear.
The summer sun was shining, the sweat was on his brow,
His garments worn and dusty, his step seemed very slow.
But he kept pressing onward, for he was wending home,
Still shouting as he journeyed, "Deliverance will come!"
The songstress in the arbor, that stood beside the way,
Attracted his attention, inviting his delay.
His watchword being "Onward!" he stopped his ears and ran,
Still shouting as he journeyed, ''Deliverance will come!"
While gazing on that city, just o'er that narrow flood,
A band of holy angels came from the throne of God.
They bore him on their pinions, they bore the dashing foam,
And joined him in his triumph, "Deliverance has come!"
DELIVERANCE WILL COME- (Original lyrics) John B Matthias
1. I saw a way-worn traveller,
In tattered garments clad,
And struggling up the mountain,
It seemed that he was sad.
His back was laden heavy,
His strength was almost gone,
He shouted as he journeyed,
Deliverance will come!
Chorus— Then palms of victory, crowns of glory,
Palms of victory, I shall wear.
2. The summer sun was shining,
The sweat was on his brow,
His garments worn and dusty,
His step seemed very slow;
But he kept pressing onward.
For he was wending home;
Still shouting as he journeyed.
Deliverance will come.
3. The songsters in the arbor
That stood beside the way
Attracted his attention,
Inviting his delay;
His watchword being "Onward!"
He stopped his ears, and ran,
Still shouting as he journeyed.
Deliverance will come.
4. I saw him in the evening,
The sun was bending low;
He'd overtopped the mountain.
And reached the vale below;
His eyes were dim and heavy,
His journey, it was done;
He shouted, as it ended.
Deliverance will come!
5. They closed the blinds around him,
And locked him up alone.
That nothing might disturb him
Till his best Friend should come.
Hope made for him a pillow.
And faith, a garment rare,
To keep him in his slumbers
Till Jesus should appear.
6. At length the trumpet sounded,
The shadows tied away,
The gilded rays of glory
Proclaimed the coming day;
Then when the light of morning
Broke in his little room,
He rose, and cried. Hosanna!
Deliverance has come!
7. I heard the song of triumph
He sang upon that shore,
Saying, Jesus has redeemed me,
I'll suffer now no more;
And casting his eyes backward
On the race that he had run.
He raised the loud hosanna,
Deliverance has come!
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