Pretty Saro

Try to do your best some of them are probably off but just follow it. If it's not working then just follow the first verse for the others.


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When I first come to this country in eighteen 
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and forty nine
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I saw many fair lovers, but I never saw mine
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I viewéd all around me, I found I was quite alone
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And me a poor stranger and a long way from home

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Well my true love she won't have me and this I 
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understand
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She wants a freeholder and I've got no land
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But I couldn't maintain her on silver and gold
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And as many of the fine things as my love's 
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house could hold

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Fare you well to old father. Fare you well to
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mother too.
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I am going for to ramble this wide world all 
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through
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And when I get weary, I'll sit down and cry
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And I'll think of Pretty Saro, my darling, my 
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dear.

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Well I wish I was a poet, could write some fine 
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hand
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I would write my love a letter that she might
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understand.
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I'd send it by the waters where the islands 
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overflow
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And I'd think of my darling wherever she'd go.

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Way down in some lonesome valley. Way down in 
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some lonesome grove
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Where the small birds does whistle, their notes 
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to increase
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My love she is slender, both proper and neat
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And I wouldn't have no better pastimes than to 
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be with my sweet.

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Well I wish I was a turtle dove, had wings and 
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could fly
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Just now to my love's lodging tonight I'd draw 
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nigh
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And in her lily-white arms I'd lie there all 
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night
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And I'd watch the little windows for the dawning 
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of day.

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Well I strolled through the mountains, I 
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strolled through the vale
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I strolled to forget her, but it was all in vain.
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On the banks of Ocoee, on the mount of said brow
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Where I once loved her dearly and I don't hate 
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her now.