Stranger,
I know where you'll find her
Down the road from here
about a mile and a quarter
You'll know the place by shaggy barn
By stands in the field, by run -down farm
And a pond filled up with
stagnant wa ter
Then you'll see a shack nearby
You'll ask yourself, I wonder why
It looks so cold and lifeless all around
Chimney rocks are falling out
It looks as though the fire's gone out
The biggest part of the house
is rotted down
No stranger, I ain't seen her lately
She don't come around
here like she used to
You got her pictured in your mind
Pretty, gentle, sweet, and kind
You practiced every word
you're gonna say
You'll call her name,
but she won't hear you
She's in the graveyard near you
She died ten years ago last May
There was a man she talked about
A man she had to live without years ago
He leapt and left one day
Left her with an unborn child
A love for him that never died
And an aching heart
that sent her to an early grave
Yeah, stranger, I know who you are
I recognized you from afar
But you ain't never seen me,
not one time
Yeah, I know that you're my dad
Pictures that my momma had
And it was me and momma
that she left behind
Oh stranger, you will find her there
In peaceful sleep on yonder hill
Where we once walked, as I do still
To pick her flowers from
the field
Cause mama don't need you anymore,
and I don't need you like before
You can go on back to where
you went before
You're just a stranger
You