Dalhart Vernon - The Prisoners Song guitar tab

THE PRISONER'S SONG

As recorded by: Vernon Dalhart

Writer: Guy Massey

CAPO: 1st FRET/KEY: Eb/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.

SOURCE:

THE SMITHSONIAN COLLECTION

OF CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC