Song Search

The Prisoner's Song

by Tex Ritter

on The Aggrolites (2006)

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 all alone
Please meet me tonight in the moonlight
Please meet me tonight all alone

For I had a sad story to tell you
It's a story that's never been told
(_____)
With the cold prison bars all around me
And my head on a pillow of stone
Now I have a grand ship out on the ocean
All mounted with silver and gold

And before my poor darling would suffer
That ship would be anchored and sold
Now if I had the wings of an angel
Over these prison walls I would fly
And I'd fly to the arms of my poor darling
And there I'd be willing to die