Misc Traditional – Pretty Saro (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
       G                  Am         C                  D
When I first come to this country in eighteen and forty-nine

      G         Am           C         D
I saw many fair lovers but I never saw mine

  G             Am               C          D
I viewed it all around me, saw I was quite alone

    G         Am             C             D
And me a poor stranger and a long way from home.
[Verse 2]
         G                   Am              C            D
Well, my true love she won't have me and it's this I understand

        G               Am         C         D
For she wants some free holder and I have no land

  G            Am          C          D
I couldn't maintain her on silver and gold

    G                Am                  C                  D
But all of the other fine things that my love's house could hold.
[Verse 3]
          G           Am                C                  D
Fare thee well to ol' Mother, fare thee well to my Father, too

    G            Am          C              D
I'm going for to ramble this wide world all through

    G          Am          C            D
And when I get weary, I'll sit down and cry

    G           Am           C        D
And think of my Saro, pretty Saro, my bride.
[Verse 4]
        G              Am          C                   D
Well, I wished I was a turtledove, had wings and could fly

     G                 Am          C              D
Far away to my lover's lodgings, tonight I'd draw nigh

    G                 Am             C             D
And there in her lily-white arms I'd lay there all night

    G                         Am              C          D
And watch through them little winders for the dawning of light.