I WONDER AS I WANDER 

(Selman 2024) 

(BETTER OFF BLUE X ROW YOUR BOAT) 

32" M Fra SEV 6" TET 

Orchid purple with lavender blue watermark and ruffled edge with gold filigree over yellow to green throat. Three to four-way branching with 17 buds. Very hardy and fertile both ways. 

You will receive a very nice double fan.

I WONDER AS I WANDER

(Appalachia)

Words and music collected by John Jacob Niles in Murphy, NC in July 1933 from a young traveling evangelist Annie Morgan. According to Niles, he asked her to sing the song repeatedly until he had memorized it. It was published in his 1934 Songs of the Hill-Folk. Written in a minor key, it's qualities of pensiveness make it one of today's most popular carols.

1. I wonder as I wander out under the sky,

How Jesus the Savior did come for to die.

For poor on'ry people like you and like I...

I wonder as I wander out under the sky.

2. When Mary birthed Jesus 'twas in a cow's stall,

With wise men and farmers and shepherds and all.

But high from God's heaven a star's light did fall,

And the promise of ages it then did recall.

3. If Jesus had wanted for any wee thing,

A star in the sky, or a bird on the wing,

Or all of God's angels in heav'n for to sing,

He surely could have it, 'cause he was the King.