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Pretty Saro

from Tradition by Ranagri

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    12 traditional songs reworked by Ranagri
    Released February 28, 2014

    Produced and recorded by Donal Rogers for Goatskin Records

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Pretty Saro is an English folk ballad originating in the early 1700s.The song died out in England by the mid eighteenth century but was rediscovered in North America in the early twentieth century where it had been preserved in the Appalachian Mountains through oral traditions.The work of Cecil Sharp is credited for keeping songs such as Pretty Saro and others, alive well into modern times.

Many thanks for the fantastic original artwork by Miu Stead

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Pretty Saro

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 my Saro where ever I go

My love, she won’t have me, I do understand

She wants a freeholder and I have no land

I cannot maintain her with silver and gold

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

If I were a poet I'd write some fine hand

This night to my love's window I would draw nigh,
In her lily-white arms all night I would lay
And watch the little windows till the dawning of day.

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from Tradition, track released October 12, 2014

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Ranagri London, UK

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Anglo Irish 4 piece alt folk. Dónal Rogers. Eliza Marshall, Eleanor Dunsdon, Jordan Murray.. inc flutes, whistles, harp, piano, bodhrán, dulcimer,guitars & bouzouki.
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