Pretty Saro (Album Version) - Pete Seeger

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 pretty Saro where ever I go

My love she won't have me so I understand

She wants a freeholder and I have no land

I can not maintain her with silver and gold

Nor buy all the fine things that a big house can hold

If I were a merchant and could write a fine hand

I'd write my love a letter so she'd understand

But I'll wander by the river where the waters o'erflow

And I'll dream of pretty Saro where ever I go