I wandered alone to my home by the river 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 "They've all moved away", said the voice of a stranger To a beautiful home by the bright, crystal sea Some beautiful day, I'll 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