unless it is just me where does and and i wander as i wander come from?

Question

it may be slightly incorrect due to my lack of knowalgde about poetry

Answer 1

Do you, by any chance, mean the traditional Christmas carol, which is sometimes thought of as a "Negro spiritual" because Mahalia Jackson made it so popular?

I Wonder As I Wander

I wonder as I wander out under the sky
How Jesus the Saviour did come for to die
For poor on'ry people like you and like I;
I wonder as I wander out under the sky.

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.

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.

Langston Hughes, the reknowned African American poet, chose this as the title of one of his autobiographies.

Here's an explanation of its origin as best I have been able to determine:

"I Wonder as I Wander, the title carol for this sermon, was discovered by John Jacob Niles, who spent many years wandering around the Appalachian Mountains in search of the origins of folk songs. A composer and singer born in Kentucky in 1892, Niles found one folk song that has become a monument to his years of hard work.

"On a cold December day in North Carolina, he watched the people who lived in a poor community going about their daily chores. He began to hear the sound of a quiet, solitary voice that belonged to a little girl sitting alone on a bench. She was singing a song Niles had never heard before. When she finished, Niles asked her about the song. She told him that her mother had taught it to her, like her grandmother had taught it to her mother before her. The song was I Wonder as I Wander. He wrote the words in a small tablet, and long after he had left the child, he continued to hear the hauntingly beautiful words and melody.

"They were deeply spiritual, very thoughtful, and very simply but profoundly contained the joy and wonder of Christmas. When Niles introduced the song just before the beginning of World War II, he awed people with his discovery. Until his death in 1980, Niles continued his search for the source of the carol. He never found its author, and concluded that the little girl was an angel sent to deliver a message of the wonder of Christ’s birth."

Answer 2

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Answer 3

It's a hymn,

'I wonder as I wander out under the sky
How Jesus our Saviour did come for to die
For poor ornery people like you and like I
I wonder as I wander out under the sky.'

I think that's how it goes.

Answer 4

My grandmother used to sing an old hymn "And I wonder yes I wonder if those angels way up yonder will those angels play their harps for me" Don't know where it comes from - old spiritual perhaps?
Edit - Turns out it's an old Josef Locke song - get the lyrics at this site.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Why ask such a complex question then? to wander is to go off somewhere on your own. I'm not going into what i may or may not think u r talking about

Answer 7

Song

Answer 8

I wander lonely as a cloud:

http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html

Answer 9

A stork

Answer 10

Ask your mama