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Pretty Saro

from Hunger by Robinson & Rohe

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Traditional, adapted from Jean Ritchie

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Pretty Saro
Traditional, adapted from Jean Ritchie

Down in some lone valley in a lonesome place
Where the wild birds do whistle and their notes do increase
Farewell, Pretty Saro I bid you adieu
And I’ll dream of Pretty Saro wherever I go

My love she won’t have me so I understand
She wants a freeholder who owns house and 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 merchant and could write a fine hand
I’d write my love a letter that she’d understand
I’d write it by the river where the waters o’erflow
And I’ll dream of Pretty Saro wherever I go

Down in some lone valley in a lonesome place
Where the wild birds do whistle and their notes do increase
Farewell, Pretty Saro I bid you adieu
And I’ll dream of Pretty Saro wherever I go

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from Hunger, released August 15, 2017
© 2017 Jean Rohe (Laundry Line Music, BMI), Liam Robinson (Liamerica, ASCAP)

Jean Rohe –– acoustic guitar and singing
Liam Robinson –– banjo, accordion, piano, brushes, and singing
Hannah Read –– fiddle
Christopher Tordini –– bass
Kyle Morgan –– resonator, acoustic, and electric guitars, additional vocal “Safe Harbor”

Produced by Robinson & Rohe
Recorded by Danny Blume at Old Soul Studio
Mixed by Todd Sickafoose at Earycanal
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music

Art by Andrew Benincasa
Photos by Jen Painter
Design by Karen Oh
Essay by Stephanie Mills

Thanks to the Robinsons and the Rohes; to Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology and Blue Mountain Center for the gift of time and space; to the residents and visitors of Yggdrasil for companionship and spiritual nourishment (especially Andy Benincasa, Nikki-Lu Asselin, Sara Joy Marquez, Jess Serrante); Kathleen Sullivan and Blaise Dupuy, Michael Moricz, Mike Olson, and all the kind people who have fed and sheltered us on our journeys in exchange for a little music.

© 2017 Laundry Line Records

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Robinson & Rohe Brooklyn, New York

Robinson & Rohe is the duo of American songwriters Liam Robinson (banjo, accordion, vocals) and Jean Rohe (guitar, vocals). Since the release of their debut record, Hunger, in 2017, they have taken their music all over the US, Switzerland, UK, and Ireland, lighting up venerable folk venues and festivals from Club Passim to The Green Note and opening for Tom Paxton and Anaïs Mitchell along the way. ... more

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