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 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. 



Now they've all moved away said the voice of a stranger 

To a beautiful home by a bright crystal sea 

And some day I'll meet them all up in Heaven 

Where no one will be a rank stranger to me.