Key: Bb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Down in some lone valley
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In some lonesome place
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Where the wild birds do whistle
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And their notes do increase
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Verse 2
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Farewell Pretty Saro
I bid you adieu
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And I'll dream of Pretty
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Saro wherever I go
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Oh I love Pretty Saro but
Verse 3
I understand
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She wants a freeholder and I have no land
I cannot maintain her on
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silver or gold
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Nor buy all the fine things that
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A big house can hold
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If I were a merchant and
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Could write a fine hand i'd write my love a
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Letter that she'd understand
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But I'll wander by the river
Where the waters o'erflow
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And I'll dream of Pretty Saro
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wherever I go
Outro 1
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ChordsA E B F#m
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