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