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Roger in Baltimore ADD: Rank Strangers (Albert E. Brumley) (28) Lyr/Chords Add: RANK STRANGERS (Alfred E. Brumley) 04 Aug 99


I went to Roughstock.com (COWPIE) and got this information

From: "Gene L. Graham"

Subject: RANK STRANGERS

RANK STRANGERS
Recorded by The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys
Written by Alfred 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 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).

"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

Enjoy the music.

Roger in Baltimore


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