Subject: Copy of the lost threads 7(Susan) From: Teru Date: 22 Apr 97 - 05:19 AM Dick, Oh, I have forgotten an important thread. Sorry Teru -------------------------------------------------- Posting requests - beyond title Messages posted to thread: From Date Susan of DT 04/14/97 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Posting requests - beyond title From: Susan of DT Date: 04/14/97 We have been discussing how to title threads, but there are other issues within the request. People often ask for something about title XXX as sung by YYY and do not give a fragment of the song. This limits responses to people who know both song and singer. Other people who know the song, but not the recording referred to, are not likely to be able to respond. Give us all more hints whenever you can. Thanx. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to Thread Subject: From: Enter message below (press return after each line)
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Subject: Rank Strangers From: kavant3345@aol.com Date: 13 Apr 97 - 12:35 PM I need the words to Rank Strangers and Let My Soul Pass Through the Southland |
Subject: Lyr Add: RANK STRANGERS (Albert E. Brumley) From: Gene Graham Date: 13 Apr 97 - 12:58 PM Look in COWPIE under Stanley Brothers: http://www.roughstock.com/cowpie
RANK STRANGERS
I wandered a-[D] gain to my [A7] home in the [D] mountains
CHORUS: Ever'body I met (ECHO: ever'body I met)
"They've all moved away," said the voice of a stranger, Source: THE BLUEGRASS HALL OF FAME, 1987 HIGHLAND MUSIC HT-10 HTML line breaks added, in place of double spacing. --JoeClone, 13-Apr-03. |
Subject: RE: Rank Strangers From: Frank Date: 13 Apr 97 - 03:22 PM In the "Bluegrass Songbook" - Oak Publications - ISBN 0 8256 0164 8 this song is listed as Traditional. This book has a three string tablature format for the actual notes. --- Frank |
Subject: RE: Copy of the lost threads 7(Susan) From: Dale Rose Date: 13 May 97 - 03:30 AM Here is the middle verse, which is not heard as often. I searched every face for a sign of a loved one,I don't think you can stress too much the fact that this is an Albert E. Brumley song. While it has frequently been listed as traditional or credited to the Stanleys, Brumley wrote it in 1942. He left us with a legacy of so many wonderful songs~~I'll Fly Away, Camping In Canaan's Land, If We Never Meet Again, Turn Your Radio On . . . |
Subject: rank stranger From: Frances Casstevens Date: 14 Nov 98 - 06:49 AM Was "Rank Stranger" written by Carter Stanley? or is it a traditional song in public domain? |
Subject: RE: rank stranger From: Dale Rose Date: 14 Nov 98 - 09:55 AM Neither. Written by the one and only Albert E. Brumley of Powell, Missouri, copyright 1942. Brumley, of course, also wrote such gems as I'll Fly Away, Turn Your Radio On, If We Never Meet Again, Did You Ever Go Sailing?, I'll Meet You In The Morning . . . |
Subject: Lyrics Required, Rank Strangers From: Steve Latimer Date: 04 Aug 99 - 09:15 AM I'm looking for the lyrics to the bluegrass song 'Rank Strangers', I believe it was done by the Osborne Brothers. I couldn't find it in DT. Steve Latimer |
Subject: RE: Lyrics Required, Rank Strangers From: Mudjack Date: 04 Aug 99 - 09:34 AM I believe Ralph Stanley authored it. The version I hear is JIm Ringer's. I might have it but let's give the Cats a chance. I'd have to type it out the long way. Our wiser folks can touch four or five clicks and have it for you. If not I'll attempt it later this evening. Mudjack off to work I go... |
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: RANK STRANGERS (Alfred E. Brumley) From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 04 Aug 99 - 10:34 AM I went to Roughstock.com (COWPIE) and got this information
From: "Gene L. Graham"
Subject: RANK STRANGERS
RANK STRANGERS
INTRO: Play last two lines of chorus.
CAPO: 4th Fret/KEY: F#/PLAY: D
CHORUS
"They've all moved away"
Source: THE BLUEGRASS HALL OF FAME, 1987 HIGHLAND MUSIC HT-105 Enjoy the music. Roger in Baltimore |
Subject: RE: Lyrics Required, Rank Strangers From: Steve Latimer Date: 04 Aug 99 - 10:40 AM Roger, Thank you, that's exactly what I was after. It was the Clinch Mountain Boys version that I have heard. Steve |
Subject: RE: Lyrics Required, Rank Strangers From: Mudjack Date: 05 Aug 99 - 01:13 AM Roger in B...Thanks from me also. Mudjack |
Subject: Rank strangers to me? From: JTT Date: 17 Oct 00 - 11:29 AM Anyone got the words to this? |
Subject: RE: Rank strangers to me? From: Dale Rose Date: 17 Oct 00 - 11:38 AM Well that IS an easy one, got the book right here by the desk ~~ it is an Albert E. Brumley song (actually entitled Rank Strangers To Me), copyright 1942, which has more or less "escaped", mostly due to the Stanley Brothers version, and the seemingly thousands of recordings which came after theirs. Just enter the term Rank Strangers in the Digitrad and Forum search box, and many, many references will come up. I just glanced at the entries, but have not found the complete lyrics yet, but I think they surely are there. Will enter them later if not. |
Subject: ADD: Rank Strangers (Brumley) From: Midchuck Date: 17 Oct 00 - 11:48 AM From the Gospel lyrics page: Peter. ************************************** From: "Gene L. Graham" ah827@rgfn.epcc.Edu Recorded by The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys Written by Alfred E. Brumley, Sr. Thanks to "Brijet Neff" neff@svn.net for the little known second verse "The only recorded version with three verses( that I could find) was by Carl Story and his Rambling Mountaineers. It was recorded on Starday album 'Mighty Close To Heaven'." RANK STRANGERS 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 youths' 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). I searched every face for a sign of a loved one, and I asked everyone where the old folks could be. I went down the road to inquire of some neighbors, but found they were too, 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. CHORUS Source: THE BLUEGRASS HALL OF FAME, 1987 HIGHLAND MUSIC HT-105 |
Subject: RE: Rank strangers to me? From: JTT Date: 17 Oct 00 - 02:43 PM Oh boy! It's the story of Oisin! For those not schooled in Gaelic lore, Oisin was the son of Fionn Mac Cumhaill, a guy who kept order and made poetry and loved hunting. One day Fionn and his crowd, the Fianna, were hanging out in Gleann na Smol, just south of Dublin, (the Valley of the Thrushes, it means) and a blonde rode up on a white horse and persuaded Oisin to go with her. They went off to Hy Brasil, the Land of the Ever-Young, otherwise known as Tir na n-Og, or more correctly Tir na h-Oige, and after a couple of years Oisin got lonesome for home. Niamh (the blonde) told him that he could go home for a visit, but whatever he should do he shouldn't get off the horse. So he was riding around Ireland looking for Fionn and the Fianna and getting funny looks, and seeing grass grow over Tara and over Fionn's gaff at the Hill of Allen. He went to Gleann na Smol and there he saw a bunch of guys trying to move a little stone. He leaned off the horse and picked it up and threw it (it's still there where he threw it, today) and the girth broke on his horse, and he fell down. As soon as he hit the ground he turned into a 300-year-old man, and had the misfortune of having long debates with St Patrick, who supposedly converted him to Christianity. Yeah, right. But all that stuff about the old folks being gone, that's the centre of the Oisin myth. |
Subject: Tune Req: Rank Strangers From: Dave Hanson Date: 08 Nov 05 - 07:26 AM Can anyone help ? I'm looking for the sheet music to this Stanley Brothers Song, or failing that the tablature. Thanks y'all, eric |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Rank Strangers From: Sorcha Date: 08 Nov 05 - 10:03 AM Tab here. Warning...it's a 'snag you' site |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Rank Strangers From: Dave Hanson Date: 09 Nov 05 - 04:09 AM Many thanks Sorcha. eric |
Subject: ADD: Rank Strangers to Me (Brumley) From: Joe Offer Date: 10 Nov 05 - 03:26 AM Rank Strangers to Me (Albert E. Brumley) I wandered again to my home in the mountains Where in youth's early dawn I was happy and free I looked for my friends but I never could find them, I found they were all rank strangers to me
Everybody I met (Everybody I met) Seemed to be a rank stranger, (Seemed to be a rank stranger,) No mother or dad, (No mother or dad,) Not a friend could I see (Not a friend could I see) They knew not my name (They knew not my name) And I knew not their faces (And I knew not their faces) I found they were all (I found they were all) Rank strangers to me (Rank strangers to me) I searched every face for a sign of a loved one, And I asked ev'ry one where the old folks could be, I went down the road to inquire of some neighbors, But found they were, too, rank strangers to me. [CHORUS] "They 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] Copyright 1943, Stamps-Baxter Music & Printing Co. from the Brumley songbook, The Best of Albert E. Brumley Click to playClick to play (harmony)Click to play (with accompaniment)Here's a quote from Dale Rose from another thread:
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rank Strangers From: Dave Hanson Date: 10 Nov 05 - 08:15 AM Nice one Joe. eric |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rank Strangers From: Midchuck Date: 10 Nov 05 - 11:04 AM Quote from the New Yorker, from some years ago, that I like so much that I typed it out and saved it: Perhaps the most dramatic moment in all the Stanley Brothers' hundreds of recordings occurs in the chorus of "Rank Strangers." After Carter sings the verse, Ralph enters with the words "Everybody I met/ Seemed to be a rank stranger" in a voice that stabs like an icepick. He raised the tension in the Stanley Brothers' music to the nearly unbearable: singing above Carter's melody, he would hang on a dissonant note in anticipation of the chord that was about to arrive. Over time, these harmonies became wilder, more edgy and attention-getting - a separate drama that didn't cozy up to the melody but defied it before an ultimate reconciliation. - David Gates, The New Yorker, Aug. 20-27, 2001 |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rank Strangers From: Dave Hanson Date: 11 Nov 05 - 07:47 AM Stanley Brothers, best version ever of this song, incidently does anyone know who played mandolin with the band of that era ? eric |
Subject: RE: rank stranger From: GUEST,colby Date: 05 Apr 10 - 11:00 PM i heard big jim williams wrote it |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rank Strangers From: GUEST,DWR Date: 06 Apr 10 - 09:37 AM Albert E Brumley, Repeat 50 times! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rank Strangers From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 06 Apr 10 - 10:14 AM I live near Brumley's part of the world. He is widely suspected of being a wheelhorse in the COPS industry. (COPS = Copyrighting Other People's Stuff) Even if you repeat it 50 times, we still don't take a claim of authorship by Brumley seriously. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rank Strangers From: Mark Clark Date: 06 Apr 10 - 12:57 PM To answer Mr. Hanson's question of Apr. 5, here's a quote from Ralph Stanley's new book Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times... It was some tough times. Mercury records weren't selling; after almost ten years we were still playing Bristol. It seemed like people were tired of us. So it looks like Curley Lambert played mandolin on that record. And if you haven't read Dr. Ralph's book, you ought to. The link I made above will give Mudcat some income too. - Mark |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rank Strangers From: Dave Hanson Date: 07 Apr 10 - 03:16 AM Thanks Mark, the book is a must for me. Dave H |
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