The Strangers chords by Dale Ann Bradley

🎸 Intro:
A  G  A  G
A  G  A  G



🎸 Verse 1:
A        D
Stranger I know where you ll find her
A         D            A    G  A G
Down the road from here about a mile and a quarter
    A         D
You ll know the place by shackey barn
  A            E
It stands in the field by a rundown farm
   D              A  G  A  G
And a pond filled up with stagnant water

🎸 Verse 2:
A         D
Then you ll see a shack near by
    A       E
You ll ask yourself I wonder why
  D                A
It looks so cold and lifeless all around
         D
Chimney rocks are falling out
  A          E
It looks as though the fires gone out
    D                  A  G  A  G
And the biggest part of the house is rotted down

🎸 Verse 3:
    A             D
Though stranger,I ain t seen her lately
                  A
She don t come around here like she used to
D
You ve got her pictured in your mind
D
Pretty gentle sweet and kind
                     E  E7  E7  E
You ve practiced every word you re gonna say

🎸 Verse 4:
    A         D
You ll call her name, but she won t here you
A      D
She s in the graveyard near here
E               A  G  A  G
 She died ten years ago, last May
   A       D
There was a man she talked about
 A       E
A man she had to live without
D               A
Years ago, he up and left one day
          D
He left her with an unborn child
   A         E
And a love for him that never died
    D                   A  G  A G
And an aching heart that sent her to an early grave

🎸 Verse 5:
  A        D
Yes stranger I know who you are
 A       E
I recognized you from a far
  D                A
But you ain t never seen me not one time
        D
Yeh I know that you re my dad
     A        E
From the pictures that my mama had
  D                 A  G  A  G
And it was me and mama that you left behind

🎸 Verse 6:
   A         D
Well, stranger you will find her there
              A
In peaceful sleep on yonder hill
               D
Where we once walked as I do still
E               A  G  A  G
 To pick her flowers from the field

🎸 Verse 7:
   A          D
Cause mama don t need you anymore
  A        D
And I don t need you like before
    A               E  E7  E  E
You can go on back to where you went before
       A    G  A  G  A  G  A  G  A
You re just a stranger