[Verse 1] A stranger leaned on my father's fence said son they've gone, ain't been here since he said they crossed where the bright rivers flow to a land where nobody's a stranger no more [Chorus] And nobody knew my name (nobody knew my name) I walked the old road and it weren't the same where are the faces that I used to claim I came back home and nobody knew my name [Verse 2] The schoolhouse is empty, the church bell's still there's a new family livin' up on the hill they looked through the window, they didn't know me just a gray-headed stranger by the old oak tree [Chorus] And nobody knew my name (nobody knew my name) I walked the old road and it weren't the same where are the faces that I used to claim I came back home and nobody knew my name [Mandolin Break] [Verse 3] So I'll lay down my burden and I'll wait for the day when the Lord calls me on to that far away where my mother and father will know me again in a HOME where nobody's a stranger then [Final Chorus] And nobody knew my name (nobody knew my name) I walked the old road and it weren't the same where are the faces that I used to claim I came back home and nobody knew my name [Outro] I came back home and nobody knew my name
