Songwriter: Dolly Parton
Producer: David Foster Kenny Rogers
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 a shackey barn
That stands in the field by a run-down farm
By a pond, filled up with stagnant water
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 fallin' out,it looks as though
The fire's gone out and the biggest part
Of the house is rotted down
Though Stranger, I ain't seen her lately
She don't come around here like she used to
You've got her pictured in your mind
Pretty, gentle, sweet and kind
You've 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 just turned and left one day
He left her with an unborn child
And a love for him that never died
And an aching heart
That sent her to an early grave
Yes, Stranger I know who you are
I recognized you from afar
But you ain't never seen me
Not one time
Yes, I know that you're my dad
From pictures that my Momma had
And it was me and Momma that you left behind
Stranger, you will find her there
In a peaceful sleep on yonder hill
Where we once walked, as I do still...
To pick her flowers from the field
Momma 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
Down the road from here about a mile and a quarter
You'll know the place by a shackey barn
That stands in the field by a run-down farm
By a pond, filled up with stagnant water
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 fallin' out,it looks as though
The fire's gone out and the biggest part
Of the house is rotted down
Though Stranger, I ain't seen her lately
She don't come around here like she used to
You've got her pictured in your mind
Pretty, gentle, sweet and kind
You've 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 just turned and left one day
He left her with an unborn child
And a love for him that never died
And an aching heart
That sent her to an early grave
Yes, Stranger I know who you are
I recognized you from afar
But you ain't never seen me
Not one time
Yes, I know that you're my dad
From pictures that my Momma had
And it was me and Momma that you left behind
Stranger, you will find her there
In a peaceful sleep on yonder hill
Where we once walked, as I do still...
To pick her flowers from the field
Momma 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
more tracks from the album
From the album
- What About Me (1984)
Kenny Rogers popular songs
- The Gambler
- Islands in the Stream
- Coward of the County
- Lady
- Through the Years
- Lucille
- Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
- She Believes In Me
- Daytime Friends
- We’ve Got Tonight
- You Decorated My Life
- Children, Go Where I Send Thee
- You and I
- Ruby Don’t Take Your Love To Town
- Goodbye
- The Greatest
- What a Wonderful Beginning
- They Just Don’t Make ’em Like You Anymore
- Kentucky Homemade Christmas
- Homeland
- To Me
- Puttin’ In Overtime at Home
- I Don’t Need You
- I Remember You