Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Bill Staines
Canonical path: /bill-staines/pretty-saro
Related lyric paths: 6
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Pretty Saro
Read Pretty Saro lyrics by Bill Staines on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Pretty Saro
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Down in some lone valley in a lonesome place
Where the wild birds do whistle and their notes do increase
Farewell Pretty Saro. I'll bid you adieu
And I'll think of pretty Saro wherever I go.
My love will not have me and I understand.
She wants a freeholder and I have no land.
I cannot maintain her, I've no silver, no gold.
I can't buy her the nice things that a big house can hold.
If I were a merchant and could write a line hand.
I'd write my love a letter so that she'd understand,
I'd go down by the river where the waters do flow.
And I'd think of pretty Saro wherever I go.
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Who performs "Pretty Saro"?
Bill Staines performs "Pretty Saro", and this lyric page sits inside the Bill Staines catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to 'Neath the Moon and the Morning Star and A Rancher Turns 80/The Years with a short reason for opening each page next.
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