THE PRISONER'S SONG
As recorded by: Vernon Dalhart
Writer: Guy Massey
Chords tabbed by bluerabbit10

CAPO: 2nd fret-BanjoTunedE play D

(D) Oh, I wish I had someone to (G) love me
Some-(A7) one to call me their (D) own
Oh, I wish I had someone to (G) live with
'Cause I'm (A7) tired of livin' a-(D) lone.

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.