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Wayfaring Stranger Ukulele Tab
- Composer
- Traditional
- Year
- —
- Key
- Am
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- 84 BPM
- Difficulty
- Easy · ★★
- First note
- A4
Wayfaring Stranger on ukulele
The full melody, rendered as four-string ukulele tab in re-entrant High-G (gCEA) you can read on screen or print for the stand — free, and never truncated.
Notes marked with a dot are folded up an octave to sit in the ukulele’s range — the app arranges them the same way.
Arranged for the standard re-entrant High-G (gCEA) ukulele. On Low G, Baritone or D tuning the app re-fingers the same melody live. Left-handed? The app can mirror the whole tab.
Lyrics
Bar 1 — I'm just a poor wayfaring stranger
Bar 3 — I'm trav'ling through this world of woe
Bar 5 — Yet there's no sickness, no toil nor danger
Bar 7 — in that bright land to which I go
Bar 9 — I'm going there to see my father
Bar 11 — I'm going there no more to roam
Bar 13 — I'm only going over Jordan
Bar 15 — I'm only going over home
Trad. American spiritual, 19th c. — public domain.
How to practise this on ukulele
Wayfaring Stranger is in Am and opens on A4. This tab is arranged for the standard re-entrant High-G ukulele: the fourth string (the top of the written tab, marked g) is tuned above the two strings under it, which is why a melody can dip onto the open g and come out sounding high — that's the instrument's signature, not a misprint. If you play Low G, the app re-fingers the same melody for your tuning live.
Pick the melody with alternating thumb and index, or the index alone on slower pieces, and keep your fretting fingers curled so open strings ring clear. Set the metronome under around 84 BPM, watch the tab rather than your hands, and loop the bar your take review grades worst until it comes back clean twice in a row. By the numbers, this setting runs 69 notes across 17 bars, from G3 up to A4 in 4/4 time.
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The same melody is graded across 6 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Wayfaring Stranger cross-instrument hub.
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Soloist Ukulele reads this four-string ukulele tab in re-entrant High-G (gCEA) under the notation and grades your take on-device, note by note — free on iPhone, no ads, no account.
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