Rank Strangers Lyrics - The Stanley Brothers

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 seemed to be a rank stranger 

No mother or dad not a friend could I see 

They knew not my name and I knew not their faces 

I found they were all rank strangers to me. 

Now they've all moved away said the voice of a stranger 

To a beautiful home by a bright crystal sea 

And some day I'll meet them all up in Heaven 

Where no one will be a rank stranger to me.