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RANK STRANGERS
Recorded by The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys
Written by Albert E. Brumley, Sr.
INTRO: Play last two lines of chorus./CAPO: 4th Fret/KEY: F#/PLAY: D

I wandered a-[D] gain to my [A7] home in the [D] mountains
Where in youth's early dawn I was [E] happy and [A7] free. [E] [A7]
I looked for my [D] friends but [A7] I never could [D] find them.
I found they were all rank [A7] strangers to [D] me. [G] [D]

CHORUS: Ever'body I met (ECHO: ever'body I met)
Seemed to [G] be a rank [D] stranger. (seemed to be a rank stranger)
No mother or dad (no mother or dad)
Not a [E] friend could I [A7] see. (not a [E] friend could I [A7] see)
They knew not my [D] name (they knew not my name)
And I [A7] knew not their [D] faces. (and I knew not their faces)
I found they were all (I found they were all)
Rank [A7] strangers to [D] me. (rank [G] strangers to [D] 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. CHORUS

Source: THE BLUEGRASS HALL OF FAME, 1987 HIGHLAND MUSIC HT-10

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