Our Bluegrass Gospel version of "Palms of Victory " Lyrics below with Guitar Chords The song is clearly based on the story of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, a book that was widely read in the 19th Century, and that had a profound influence on the Christian world-view among all denominations.The gospel song, Palms of Victory, also called “Deliverance Will Come,” and “The Way-worn Traveler,” was written in 1836 by the Rev. John B. Matthias, a Methodist Episcopal minister in New York state in the 19th century.



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I saw a wayward traveler in tattered garments clad
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And struggling up the mountain it seemed that he was sad
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His back was laden heavy his strength was almost gone
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It shouted as he traveled deliverance has come

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Then palms of victory crowns of glory
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Palms of victory I shall wear

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The summer sun was shining, the sweat was on his brow
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His garments worn and dusty, his step seemed very slow A7 D
But he kept pressing onward, for he was going home A7 D
Still shouting as he journeyed, "Deliverance will come!"



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I saw him in the evening the sun was sinking low
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It'd overcome the mountain and reached the vale below
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He saw that golden city his ever lasting home
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And shouted loud Hosanna deliverance has come


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The songsters in the arbor, that stood beside the way
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Attracted his attention, invited his delay
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His watchword being "Onward!", he stopped his ears and ran
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Still shouting as he journeyed, "Deliverance will come!"


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It seems I hear the angels around the throne so grand
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They're shouting glad Hosanna we reached the promise land
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When we have reached that city our race on earth we've run
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We'll all shout loud Hosanna deliverance has come


alternate verses

I saw a blood washed pilgrim, a sinner saved by grace,
Upon the King’s highway, with peaceful, shining face;
Temptations sore beset him, but nothing could afright;
He said, “The yoke is easy, the burden, it is light.”

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Then palms of victory, crowns of glory,
Palms of victory I shall wear.
His helmet was salvation, a simple faith his shield,
And righteousness his breastplate, the spirit’s sword he’d wield.
All fiery darts arrested, and quenched their blazing flight;
He cried “The yoke is easy, the burden, it is light.”
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I saw him in the furnace; he doubted not, nor feared,
And in the flames beside him, the Son of God appeared;
Though seven times ’twas heated, with all the tempter’s might,
He cried, “The yoke is easy, the burden, it is light.”
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’Mid storms, and clouds, and trials, in prison, at the stake,
He leaped for joy, rejoicing, ’twas all for Jesus’ sake;
That God should count him worthy, was such supreme delight,
He cried, “The yoke is easy, the burden, is so light.”
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I saw him overcoming, through all the swelling strife,
Until he crossed the threshold of God’s eternal life;
The crown, the throne, the scepter, the name, the stone so white,
Were his, who found, in Jesus, the yoke and burden light.
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