Prisoner’s Song, The

Written by Guy Massey

Key of G · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

                           C
Oh I wish I had someone to love me
        D7         G
Someone to call me her own
                           C
Oh I wish I had someone to live with
    D7           G
For I’m tired of living alone

Chorus

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

Verse 2

     G                          C
I’ll be carried to the new jail tomorrow
        D7              G
Leaving my poor darling alone
                              C
With the cold prison bars all around me
    D7                  G
And my head on a pillow of stone

Verse 3

    G                      C
Now I have a grand ship on the ocean
    D7                  G
All mounted with silver and gold
                                 C
And before my poor darling would suffer
   D7                          G
Oh that ship would be anchored and sold

Verse 4

    G                   C
Now if I had wings like an angel
     D7                   G
Over these prison walls I would fly
                              C
And I’d fly to the arms of my poor darling
    D7                   G
And there I’d be willing to die