Rank Strangers

Tom T. Hall · I Like Beer [Piccadilly] [1981]

(arr. Tom T. Hall)



I wandered again to my home in the mountains

Where in dawn's early light 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 no 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.



--- Instrumental ---



They've all moved away said the voice of a stranger

To the beautiful home by the bright crystal sea

Some beautiful day I'll meet them in heaven

Where no one will be a stranger to me.



(Everybody I met seemed to be a rank stranger)

No mother no 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...