Verse 1: 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 nor 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) verse 2: "They've all moved away," said the voice of a stranger "To a beautiful land 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 nor 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)
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