HELLO STRANGER
(Trad. arr. A. P. Carter)

Hello, stranger. Put your lovin' hand in mine. (2x)
You are a stranger, and you're a pal of mine.

Get up, rounder. Let a workin' man lay down. (2x)
You are a rounder, but you're all out and down.

Every time I ride the sixth-and-fourth-street car, (2x)
I can see my baby peeping through the bar.

She bowed her head. She waved both hands at me. (2x)
I'm prison bound. I'm longin' to be free.

Oh, I'll see you when your troubles are like mine. (2x)
Oh, I'll see you when you haven't got a dime.

Weeping like a willow, mourning like a dove. (2x)
There's a girl up the country that I really love.

(Repeat first verse.)
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As recorded by the Carter Family, Decca 5479, 1937.
@country JTD
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