rank strangers 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