Standard (EADGBE)

 I'm weary from this river

 It flows far but never nearer to my home

 And the war's upon the shores

 Keep the single girls indoors

 And so all my love songs fall on wasted ears

 I grow tired of this highway, it runs far but never my way

 Don't you know

 But the company of strangers

 And the close and the present dangers

 Seem to pick me up like an old crow in the snow

 Cuz I'm a stranger in a strange land

 Guess I left the world behind

 And my love is like a galaxy

 It seems slow but it sure does shine

 And when I'm gone you'll know me by the friends I leave behind

 I'm weary of this losin'

 What choice is there in choosin if you find

 Yourself a stranger in a stranger place

 With your beat up shoes and an old suitcase

 And a wrist watch that don't ever seem to tell the time

 But there's a warm and a gentle feeling, it ain't never worth concealin

 what you see

 and the reins inside my brains

 keeps the memories contained

 but i miss you like the wind misses the trees

 Cuz I'm a stranger in a strange land

 Guess I left the world behind

 And my love is like a galaxy

 It seems slow but it sure does shine

 And when I'm gone you'll know me by the friends I leave behind

 And when I'm gone you'll know me by the friends I leave behind