Pretty Saro - Ashley Monroe & Aubrey Haynie
https://youtu.be/n1a42iHM-r0
Capo 4
[Verse]
A2 E
When I first come to this country
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in Eighteen and Forty-nine
A2 E
I saw many fair lovers
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but I never saw mine
E
I viewed it all around me
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saw I was quite alone
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and me a poor stranger
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and a long way from home
[Verse]
A2 E
Well, my true love she won’t have me
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and it’s this I understand
A2 E
For she wants some free holder
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and I have no land
A2 E
I couldn’t maintain her
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on silver and gold
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but all of the other fine things
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that my love’s house could hold
[Chorus]
A E
Fare thee well to ol’ mother
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fare thee well to my father too
A2 E
I am going for to ramble
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this wide world all through
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And when I get weary
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I’ll sit down and cry
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and think of my Saro
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pretty Saro, my bride
[Verse]
A2 E
Well, I wished I was a turtle dove
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Had wings and could fly
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Far away to my lover’s lodgings
A2 E
Tonight I’d drawn the line
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And there in her lilywhite arms
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I’d lay there all night
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and watch through them little wind’ers
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for the dawning of day