Pretty Saro chords by Ashley Monroe

• Capo on 4th

Verse:
        A2                    E
When I first come to this country

    D                    A2
In Eighteen and Forty-nine

       A2             E
I saw many fair lovers

                 E
But I never saw mine

   E
I viewed it all around me

     D              A2
Saw I was quite alone

     E
And me a poor stranger

       D               A2
And a long way from home


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

            D             A2
And it’s this I understand

         A2                    E
For she wants some free holder

               E
And I have no land

   A2                E
I couldn’t maintain her

    D            A2
On silver and gold

     E
But all of the other fine things

         D                      A2
That my love’s house could hold


Chorus:
          A                  E
Fare thee well to ol’ mother

           D                   A2
Fare thee well to my father too

      A2                 E
I am going for to ramble

                     E
This wide world all through

     E
And when I get weary

        D              A2
I’ll sit down and cry

     E             A2
And think of my Saro

        D          A2
Pretty Saro, my bride


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

     D                 A2
Had wings and could fly

      A2                        E
Far away to my lover’s lodgings

    A2                      E
Tonight I’d drawn the line

     E              A2           E
And there in her lilywhite arms

       D               A2
I’d lay there all night

     E                           A2
And watch through them little wind’ers

         D            A2
For the dawning of day