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