Rank Strangers

I wandered again,

through 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 [echoed]

seemed to be a rank stranger, [echoed]

no mother or dad [echoed]

not a friend could I see. [echoed]

They knew not my name.[echoed]

and I knew not their faces. [echoed]

I found they were all [echoed]

rank strangers to me. [echoed]

"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.

Everybody I met [echoed]

seemed to be a rank stranger [echoed]

No mother or dad [echoed]

not a friend could I see [echoed]

They knew not my name [echoed]

and I knew not their faces. [echoed]

I found they were all [echoed)

rank strangers to me. [echoed]

• Artist:The Stanley Brothers
• Album:An Evening Long Ago