Pretty Saro chords by
Jean Ritchie
Jean Ritchie

N/A
Key: B major
Verse 1
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C

Down in some lone valley
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in a lonesome place
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Where the wild birds do whistle
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an d their notes do increase
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Farewell, pretty Sarah,
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I bid you adieu
But I'll dream of pretty Sarah
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G

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C

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wherever I go
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My love, she won't have me,
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C

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so I understand
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She wants a freeholder
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who owns house and land.
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I cannot maintain her with silver and gold,
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Nor buy all the fine things
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that a big house can hold.
If I were a merchant
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an d could write a fine hand
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I would write my love a letter
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that she'd understand
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I would write it by the river
where the waters o 'erflow
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C
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An d I'll dream
of pretty Sarah
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wherever I go.

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