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"The Prisoner's Song" (1924) - Vernon Dalhart

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Very popular recording performed by Vernon Dalhart but with unclear origins: the credited author supposedly heard it from his brother who had been in prison, who in turn had heard it from another inmate singing it. Its popularity combined with lack of clarity over authorship led to decades of litigation.

Song info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner's_Song

Artist Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Dalhart

LYRICS

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

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 wings like 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

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