Pilgrim Of Sorrow

Written By M.C. Durham    [Hill & Range - BMI]

Soul Stirrers    Sam Cooke, Paul Foster - leads    /    Senior Roy Crain - first tenor    /    Thomas L. Bruster, R.B. Robinson - baritones    /    Jesse J. Farley - bass

Guitar: Leroy Crume

Recorded on February 2, 1955 at Master Recorders in Hollywood.

Produced by    Art Rupe

Singles    Specialty 902 b/w In A Few More Days (1957 / sold 10,600)

Albums    

• Complete Recordings of Sam Cooke With The Soul Stirrers
• The Last Mile Of The Way
• The Two Sides Of Sam Cooke
• Wonderful

Lyrics

Lord I'm poor pilgrim of sorrow
down on this world I'm alone
I have no hope for tomorrow
and I have no place that I can go
sometimes, sometimes I'm so lonely
sometimes I don't know what to do
I look around to friends for consolation
and I find that they have troubles too
and I got sister and brothers
they don't like me
because I'm away from sin
and I got good friends
my best friends turn against me
because I'm  trying so hard to win

O Lord, O Lord
come on Jesus, O  Lord
sometimes I'm tossed and driven
till I decided that I was wrong
that's when I heard of a city called Glory
and I try to make that city my home