The Rank Stranger by The Stanley Brothers
YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I16YOPmmZbs
Copyright reverts to the original copyright holders
Music and Lyrics composed by Albert E. Brumley
Standard Tuning
Key: E


[Intro Guitar]
   
   
   


[Verse 1]

I wandered aga

in to my home 

in the mountai

ns
             
Where in youth

              
's early dawn 

              
I was happy an

  
d free
             
I looked for m

              
y friends but 

             
I never could 


find them
             
I found they w

             
ere all rank s

            
trangers to me


[Chorus]

Everybody I me

t seemed to be

 a rank strang

er
              
No mother or d

              
ad not a frien

          
d could I see
             
They knew not 

             
my name and I 

              
knew not their

 
 faces
             
I found they w

             
ere all rank s

            
trangers to me


[Instrumental]
     
     
     
    


[Verse 2]

Now they've al

l moved away s

aid the voice 

of a stranger
             
To a beautiful

             
 home by a bri

            
ght crystal se

a
             
And some day I

             
'll meet them 

          
all up in Heav

en
             
Where no one w

             
ill be a rank 

            
stranger to me


[Chorus]

Everybody I me

t seemed to be

 a rank strang

er
              
No mother or d

              
ad not a frien

          
d could I see
             
They knew not 

             
my name and I 

              
knew not their

 
 faces
             
I found they w

             
ere all rank s

            
trangers to me


[Outro]
           
Rank strangers

       
 to me
(Long Guitar Chord for the last E)