Pretty Saro

by Ed Freeth

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From Wikipedia: "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 (particularly in the Appalachian Mountains) in the early twentieth century, where it had been preserved through oral traditions."

Ed Freeth, under the smog-filled influence of Appalachia and guiding hand of Shropshire's A Paranoid King, revives the traditional tune of Pretty Saro upon its home turf of Albion.

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I have left my pretty Saro and I quit my mother too
I have started out to ramble this country all through
And when I get tired I will set down and weep
And I'll think of my little darling wherever I sleep

It's not this long journey I'm a dreadin to go
Or the country I come from for the debts that I owe
There's just one thing that grieves me and troubles my mind
It's leaving my little darling way back here behind

If I were a merchant and I could write a fine hand
I would write my love a letter that she'd understand
I would write by the river where the waters oerflow
And I'd dream of my little Saro wherever I go

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released March 18, 2021
Producer: A Paranoid King

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Ed Freeth London, UK

London-based singer/songwriter - folk/pop/pastoral rock

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