The Prisoner's Song Lyrics

The Prisoner's Song - Eddy Arnold/The Tennessee Plowboy/His Guitar

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 living alone

Oh please meet me tonight in the moonlight

Oh 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

Leaving my poor darling 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 darling would suffer

Oh that ship would be anchored and sold

Now if I had the wings like an angel

Over these prison walls I would fly

And I'd fly to the arms of my darling

 

And there I'd be willing to die

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