Verse 1:
 
G7         C           G7          C 
I wandered again to my home in the mountains 
C        F             C          D7        G7 
Where in youth's early dawn I was happy and free 
G7              C              G7          C 
I looked for my friends, but I never could find them 
C F               C        G7           C 
I found they were all rank strangers to me 


[Refrão]

G7          C 
Everybody I met (everybody I met) 
C         F         C 
Seemed to be a rank stranger (seemed to be a rank stranger) 
C  G7         C 
No mother nor dad (no mother or dad) 
C     D7             G7 
Not a friend could I see (not a friend could I see) 
G7               C 
They knew not my name (they knew not my name) 
C     G7             C 
And I knew not their faces (and I knew not their faces) 
C F               C 
I found they were all (I found they were all) 
C    G7           C 
Rank strangers to me (rank strangers to me)


verse 2:
 
G7                 C               G7         C 
"They've all moved away," said the voice of a stranger 
C     F         C           D7             G7 
"To a beautiful land by the bright crystal sea" 
G7             C        G7          C 
Some beautiful day I'll meet 'em in heaven 
C     F           C    G7          C 
Where no one will be a stranger to me 


[Refrão]
 
G7          C 
Everybody I met (everybody I met) 
C         F         C 
Seemed to be a rank stranger (seemed to be a rank stranger) 
C  G7         C 
No mother nor dad (no mother or dad) 
C     D7             G7 
Not a friend could I see (not a friend could I see) 
G7               C 
They knew not my name (they knew not my name) 
C     G7             C 
And I knew not their faces (and I knew not their faces) 
C F               C 
I found they were all (I found they were all) 
C    G7           C 
Rank strangers to me (rank strangers to me)