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Version 1
From the album Classic Bluegrass Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys
Sounds 1/4 tone flat of F#
[Intro]
D A7 D D6 D
[Verse 1]
D A D
I wandered again, to my home in the mountains
D A
where in youth's early dawn I was happy and free
D A D D6 D
I looked for my friends, but I never could find 'em
D A D G D
I found they were all rank strangers to me
[Chorus]
D A D
Everybody I've met,(everybody I met) seemed to be a rank stranger(seemed to be a rank stranger)
D A D A A7/E A
no mother nor dad,(no mother nor dad) not a friend could I see (not a friend could I see)
D A D A7 D
they knew not my name,(they knew not my name) and I knew not their faces (I knew not their faces)
D A D A D G D
I found they were all (I found they were all) rank strangers to me (rank strangers to me)
[Verse 2]
D A D
they've all moved away, said the voice of a stranger
D A
to a beautiful home by the bright crystal sea
D A D D6 D
some beautiful day, I'll meet 'em in heaven
D A D G D
where no one will be a stranger to me
[Instrumental]
D A7 D D6 D
[Chorus]
D A D
everybody I've met,(everybody I met) seemed to be a rank stranger(seemed to be a rank stranger)
D A D A A7/E A
no mother nor dad,(no mother nor dad) not a friend could I see (not a friend could I see)
D A D A7 D
they knew not my name,(they knew not my name) and I knew not their faces (I knew not their faces)
D A D A D G D
I found they were all (I found they were all) rank strangers to me (rank strangers to me)