I wondered alone from my home by the river
Where in youths early dawn I was happy and free
I looked for my friends
But I never could find 'em
I found they were all rank strangers to me

Everybody I met seemed to be a Rank Stranger
No mother or 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

They've all moved away, said the voice of a stranger
To a beautiful land by the bright crystal sea
Some beautiful day I will meet 'em in Heaven
Where no one will be a stranger to me

Everybody I met seemed to be a Rank Stranger
No mother or 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