RANK STRANGERS
         Recorded by The Stanley Brothers 

 
             D            
I wandered a-gain - 
      A7          D
To my home in the mountains

Where in youths' early dawn - 
      E          A7
I was happy and free 



                 D
I looked for my friends - 
    A7            D
But I never could find them

I found they were all - 
      A7           D
Rank strangers to me. 



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Ever'body I met (ECHO: ever'body I met)
          G          D
Seemed to be a rank stranger (seemed to be a rank stranger)

No mother or dad (no mother or dad) ...
      E               A7          E             A7
Not a friend could I  see (not a friend could I see)


                   D
They knew not my  name (they knew not my name)
      A7             D
And I knew not their faces (and I knew not their faces)

I found they were all (I found they were all)
     A7           D         G           D
Rank strangers to me (rank strangers to me).



"They've all moved away" - said the voice of a stranger
"To a beautiful home - by the bright crystal sea"
Some beautiful day - I'll meet 'em in heaven
Where no one will be - a stranger to me.


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