Rank Stranger

Stanley Brothers

Key: F# −1 +1 Reset (G)
A Bb B C C# D Eb E F F# G G#
 I wandered F#again to my C#home in the F#mountains
 Where in youth's early dawn I was happy and G#free   C# 
 I looked for my F#friends, but I C#never could F#find them
 I found they were all rank C#strangers to F#me

Everybody I met (everybody I met)

 Seemed to Bbe a rank F#stranger (seemed to Bbe a rank F#stranger)

No mother nor dad (no mother or dad)

 Not a friend could I G#see (not a friend could I C#see)
 They knew not my F#name (they knew not my name)
 And I C#knew not their F#faces (and I C#knew not their F#faces)

I found they were all (I found they were all)

 Rank strangers C#to F#me (rank C#strangers to F#me)

"They've all moved away, " said the voice of a stranger

"To a beautiful land by the bright crystal sea"

Some beautiful day I'll meet 'em in heaven

Where no one will be a stranger to me