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25 Aug 98 - 06:51 PM (#35965) Subject: Pretty Saro- Doc Watsons version. From: The Shambles The lyrics on the data base are not the ones I remember from a version recorded by Doc Watson on one of the Vanguard recordings. Does any one have these lyrics? |
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25 Aug 98 - 07:55 PM (#35972) Subject: Lyr Add: PRETTY SARO (from Doc Watson) From: Gene PRETTY SARO Doc Watson Trad: When I came to this country in 1845 Then I thought myself lucky for to be alive I looked all around me and none could I see That were sweeter, or fairer, Pretty Saro, than thee. Pretty Saro, Pretty Saro, likewise my mother, too I have started for to ramble this country all through And when I get tired, I'll [set] down and weep And I'll think of my Pretty Saro, wherever I sleep. Oh, it's not this long journey, I'm a-dreadin' for to go Not the country I'm a-leavin' and the debts that I owe But there's one thing that grieves me and troubles my mind It's a-leavin' my little darlin' way back here behind. If I was a poet and could write a fine hand I would write my love a letter that she'd long understand I would send it by the waters where the islands overflow I'll remember my Pretty Saro, wherever I go. SOURCE: DOC WATSON-HOME AGAIN/VANGUARD VSD-79239
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