prisoner's song

oh

i wish i had someone to love me

yes

someone to call me their own

oh

i wish i had someone to live with

'cause i'm tired of living alone

oh

please meet me tonight in the moonlight

oh

please meet me tonight all alone

for i have a sad story to tell you

it's a story that's never been told

i'll be carried to the new jail tomorrow

leaving my poor darling alone

with the cold prison bars all around me

and my head on a pillow of stone

now

i have a grand ship on the ocean

all mounted with silver and gold

and before my poor darling would suffer

oh

that ship would be anchored and sold

now if i had the wings like an angel

over these prison walls i would fly

and i'd fly to the arms of my darling

and there i'd be willing to die.