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