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[Verse 1]
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I wandered again to my home in the mountains
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 Where at lifes early dawn I was happy and free
  E                            B7          E
I looked for my friends, but I never could find them
  E                  B7                  E  A  E
I found they were all  rank strangers to me

[Chorus]
     E                B7     E
Everybody I met (everybody I met)
          E
Seemed to be a rank stranger (seemed to be a rank stranger)
   E
No mother or dad (no mother or dad)
      E              B7         F#             B7
Not a friend could I see (not a friend could I see)
                 E
They knew not my name (they knew not my name)
      E
And I knew not their faces (and I knew not their faces)

I found they were all (I found they were all)
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Rank strangers to me (rank strangers to me)

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
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  "They've all moved away, " said the voice of a stranger
      E                                    B7 F# B7
"To a beautiful home by the bright crystal sea"
               E        B7          E
Some beautiful day I'll meet 'em in heaven
      E             B7               E   A E
Where no one will be   a stranger to me

[Chorus]
     E                B7     E
Everybody I met (everybody I met)
          E
Seemed to be a rank stranger (seemed to be a rank stranger)
   E
No mother or dad (no mother or dad)
      E              B7         F#             B7
Not a friend could I see (not a friend could I see)
                 E
They knew not my name (they knew not my name)
      E
And I knew not their faces (and I knew not their faces)
  E
I found they were all (I found they were all)
     B7           E        A            E
Rank strangers to me (rank strangers to me)