Prisoner’s song
C C7 F
1. Oh, I wish I had someone to love me,
G G7 C
oh, someone to call me their
own.
C7 F
Oh, I wish I had someone to
live with,
G G7 C
for I'm
tired of living all alone.
C C7 F
2. Please do meet me tonight in the moonlight,
G G7 C
please do meet me tonight all
alone,
C7 F
for I have a sad story I’ll
tell you,
G G7 C
it's a story that's never been
told.
C C7 F
3. I'll be carried to the new jail tomorrow,
G G7 C
leaving my poor darling alone,
C7 F
with the cold prison bars all
around me,
G G7 C
and my head
on a pillow of stone.
C C7 F
4. But I have a great ship on the ocean,
G G7 C
all mounted with silver and
gold,
C7 F
and before my poor darling
would suffer
G G7 C
this ship would be anchored
and sold.
C C7 F
5. Oh, if
I had the wings of a swallow,
G G7 C
over these prison walls I
would fly,
C7 F
I would fly to the arms of my poor darling,
G G7 C
and there I'd be willing for
to die.
+ repeat verse 2 + F - C
(The Carter Family)