Rank Strangers to Me

DESCRIPTION: "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." He is told all of them are gone. He will see them in heaven
AUTHOR: Albert E. Brumley (1905-1977) (source: Brumley-LamplitinTimeInTheValley)
EARLIEST DATE: 1960 (recording, The Stanley Brothers)
KEYWORDS: separation death travel friend
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Brumley-LamplitinTimeInTheValley 8, "Rank Strangers to Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13162
NOTES [45 words]: Although not traditional in origin, and rarely if ever found in oral tradition, this is so well-known in bluegrass circles (due primarily to the recording by the Stanley Brothers) that it is widely regarded as traditional by people who listen to that kind of music. - RBW
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File: ABLL008

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