The Prisoner's Song-Vernon Dalhart

[ti:The Prisoner's Song] [ar:Vernon Dalhart] [al:Chain Gang, Songs About Jails and Prisoners] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.10]The Prisoner's Song - Vernon Dalhart [00:00.30]Written by：Traditional [00:00.40] [00:26.36]Oh I wish I had someone to love me [00:32.70] [00:33.23]Someone to call me their own [00:39.72]Oh I wish I had someone to live with [00:45.83] [00:46.49]'Cause I'm tired of livin' alone [00:52.87] [00:53.47]Oh please meet me tonight in the moonlight [00:59.61] [01:00.13]Please meet me tonight all alone [01:06.29] [01:06.91]For I have a sad story to tell you [01:12.86] [01:13.38]It's a story that's never been told [01:19.91] [01:47.59]I'll be carried to the new jail tomorrow [01:54.31]Leaving my poor darling all alone [02:00.67] [02:01.19]With the cold prison bars all around me [02:08.10]And my head on a pillow of stone [02:14.61] [02:15.14]Now I have a grand ship on the ocean [02:21.43] [02:21.95]All mounted with silver and gold [02:28.94]And before my poor darlin' would suffer [02:35.92]Oh that ship would be anchored and sold [02:43.15]Now if I had wings like an angel [02:50.04]Over these prison walls I would fly [02:57.05]And I'd fly to the arms of my poor darlin' [03:04.13]And there I'd be willing to die