[Verse 1]

When I first come to this country in eighteen and forty nine

I saw many fair woman but I never saw mine

Oh, I viewed them all around me, saw that I was quite alone

Oh me a lonely Scotsman just a long ways from home

[Verse 2]

I was forced from my homeland I was made for to go

And amis' the purple heather in the grey mountains cold

Oh I travelled over oceans and valleys so wide

Without you darling Saro my love by my side

[Verse 3]

Oh I wish I was a turtle dove, had wings and could fly

I would fly to my lover's lodgings and lay down by her side

Oh and there on her lily white sheets I would lay down and cry

And a-drеam of lovely Saro with the tears in my еyes

[Verse 4]

Fare thee well to my aged father and likewise to my mother too

I have gone far to ramble in the whole world through

Oh and when I start drinking, ach, I can't help but cry

When I think of lovely Saro, pretty Saro my pride