Rank Strangers

Old Time Bluegrass Favorite

Verse I

I wandered again, to my home in the mountains

Where with youths 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

Chorus

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)

I knew not their names (I knew not their names)

And I knew not there faces ( I knew not their faces)

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

Rank strangers to me (rank stangers to me)

Verse II

They’ve all moved away

Said the voice of a stranger

To a beautiful home

By the bright crystal sea

Some wonderful day

I’ll meet them in Heaven

Where no one will be

A stranger to me

Repeat chorus twice