Rank Strangers
as performed by Ricky Skaggs
written by Alfred E. Brumley Sr.  [3/4 time]
transcribed by Ed Yaekle
verse 1:
G7         C           G7          C
I wandered again to my home in the mountains
C        F             C          D7        G7
Where in youth's early dawn I was happy and free
G7              C              G7          C
I looked for my friends, but I never could find them
C F               C        G7           C
I found they were all rank strangers to me
chours:
G7          C
Everybody I met (everybody I met)
C         F         C
Seemed to be a rank stranger (seemed to be a rank stranger)
C  G7         C
No mother nor dad (no mother or dad)
C     D7             G7
Not a friend could I see (not a friend could I see)
G7               C
They knew not my name (they knew not my name)
C     G7             C
And I knew not their faces (and I knew not their faces)
C F               C
I found they were all (I found they were all)
C    G7           C
Rank strangers to me (rank strangers to me)
verse 2:
G7                 C               G7         C
"They've all moved away," said the voice of a stranger
C     F         C           D7             G7
"To a beautiful land by the bright crystal sea"
G7             C        G7          C
Some beautiful day I'll meet 'em in heaven
C     F           C    G7          C
Where no one will be a stranger to me
chours:
G7          C
Everybody I met (everybody I met)
C         F         C
Seemed to be a rank stranger (seemed to be a rank stranger)
C  G7         C
No mother nor dad (no mother or dad)
C     D7             G7
Not a friend could I see (not a friend could I see)
G7               C
They knew not my name (they knew not my name)
C     G7             C
And I knew not their faces (and I knew not their faces)
C F               C
I found they were all (I found they were all)
C    G7           C
Rank strangers to me (rank strangers to me)

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