SARIE MARAIS

My Sarie Marais is so far away from me
And I'm longing to see her again
She lives in a valley by the the River Mooi River
Her heart, like mine, is filled with pain

CHORUS
I long to be in the old Transvaal
Back in the land where I was born
I see my Sarie sitting 'neath the green thorn tree
There 'midst the fields of corn.

I see my darling weeping o so bitterly for me,
Until the day when I'll be free!

from World Folk Songs by Marais & Miranda (Ballantine Books, 1964, page 51)
Traditional folk song of South Africa