Pretty Saro chords by Ashley Monroe

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 4th

Verse:
    A2          E MajorE
When I first come to this country

  D MajorD          A2
In Eighteen and Forty-nine

    A2       E MajorE
I saw many fair lovers

         E MajorE
But I never saw mine

  E MajorE
I viewed it all around me

   D MajorD       A2
Saw I was quite alone

   E MajorE
And me a poor stranger

    D MajorD        A2
And a long way from home

Verse:
     A2              E MajorE
Well, my true love she won’t have me

      D MajorD       A2
And it’s this I understand

     A2          E MajorE
For she wants some free holder

        E MajorE
And I have no land

  A2        E MajorE
I couldn’t maintain her

  D MajorD      A2
On silver and gold

   E MajorE
But all of the other fine things

     D MajorD           A2
That my love’s house could hold

Chorus:
     A augmentedA         E MajorE
Fare thee well to ol’ mother

      D MajorD          A2
Fare thee well to my father too

   A2         E MajorE
I am going for to ramble

           E MajorE
This wide world all through

   E MajorE
And when I get weary

    D MajorD       A2
I’ll sit down and cry

   E MajorE       A2
And think of my Saro

    D MajorD     A2
Pretty Saro, my bride


Verse:
     A2            E MajorE
Well, I wished I was a turtle dove

   D MajorD         A2
Had wings and could fly

   A2            E MajorE
Far away to my lover’s lodgings

  A2           E MajorE
Tonight I’d drawn the line

   E MajorE       A2      E MajorE
And there in her lilywhite arms

    D MajorD        A2
I’d lay there all night

   E MajorE              A2
And watch through them little wind’ers

     D MajorD      A2
For the dawning of day