Dale Ann Bradley - The Strangers Chords

[Intro]
A    G    A    G
 
A    G    A    G
 
[Verse]
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]
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]
       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]
       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]
    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]
      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]
      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