Ralph Stanley - Rank Stranger

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Live from The Fish Camp in Long Beach, Mississippi...The brown-eyed, Dirty-Bottomed Boys...

We gonna need a beer...Lez go (spoken)

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 or 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 home 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 or 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)