Pretty Saro from Tradition by Ranagri
Pretty Saro is an English folk ballad originating in the early 1700s.The song died out in England by the mid eighteenth century but was rediscovered in North America in the early twentieth century where it had been preserved in the Appalachian Mountains through oral traditions.The work of Cecil Sharp is credited for keeping songs such as Pretty Saro and others, alive well into modern times.
Many thanks for the fantastic original artwork by Miu Stead
Tracklist
| 10. | Pretty Saro | 3:17 |
Lyrics
Pretty Saro
Down in some lone valley, in some lonesome place
Where the wild birds do whistle and their notes do increase
Farewell pretty Saro, I’ll bid you adieu
And I’ll dream of my Saro where ever I go
My love, she won’t have me, I do understand
She wants a freeholder and I have no land
I cannot maintain her with silver and gold
Nor buy all the fine things that a big house can hold
If I were a poet I'd write some fine hand
This night to my love's window I would draw nigh,
In her lily-white arms all night I would lay
And watch the little windows till the dawning of day.
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Ranagri
Indie folk. Dónal Rogers. Eliza Marshall, Eleanor Dunsdon, Jordan Murray…flutes, whistles, harp, piano, bodhrán, dulcimer,guitars & bouzouki.
www.ranagri.com