I wandered again to 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
(everybody I met)
Seemed to be a rank stranger
(seemed to be a rank stranger)
No mother nor dad
(no mother or dad)
Not a friend could I see
(not a friend could I see)
They knew not my name
(they knew not my name)
And I knew not their faces
(and I knew not their faces)
I found they were all
(I found they were all)
Rank strangers to me
(rank strangers to 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
Everybody I met
(everybody I met)
Seemed to be a rank stranger
(seemed to be a rank stranger)
No mother nor dad
(no mother or dad)
Not a friend could I see
(not a friend could I see)
They knew not my name
(they knew not my name)
And I knew not their faces
(and I knew not their faces)
I found they were all
(I found they were all)
Rank strangers to me
(rank strangers to me)
Writer(s): Albert E. Brumley Sr.
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