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Version 1From 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)