The Prisoner's Song Songtext
von Vernon Dalhart

Oh, I wish I had someone to love me
Someone to call me their own
Oh, I wish I had someone to live with
′Cause I'm tired of livin′ alone

Oh, please meet me tonight in the moonlight
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
Leavin′ my poor darlin' 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 darlin′ would suffer
Oh, that ship would be anchored and sold

Now if I had wings like an angel
Over these prison walls I would fly
And I'd fly to the arms of my poor darlin′
And there I'd be willin′ to die