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Pretty Saro

Bob Dylan

RockEasy for beginners3 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

G
Am×
D××

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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G                       Am 
Down in some lone valley  
                      G 
In a sad lonesome place  
                       D 
Where the wild birds do all  
 
Their notes to increase  
 
 
                G 
Farewell pretty Saro  
               D 
I bid you Adieu  
                       Am 
But I dream of pretty Saro  
            G 
Wherever I go  
 
 
G                           Am 
Well my love she won't have me  
           G 
So I understand  
                 Am 
She wants a freeholder  
                       D 
Who owns a house and land  
 
 
               Am 
I cannot maintain her  
                  G 
With silver and gold  
                    D 
And all of the fine things  
                     G 
That a big house can hold  
 
 
          Am 
If I was a poet  
                          G 
And could write a fine hand  
                    D 
I'd write my love a letter  
 
That she'd understand  
 
 
                    Am 
And write it by the river  
                      G 
Where the waters overflow  
                       D 
But I dream of pretty Saro  
           D 
Wherever I go                 G 
 
          
 

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Chord set

G · Am · D

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.