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Prisoner's Song

Key: C

Introduction:

                             C                         C7                    F  
          Oh, I wish I had someone to love me,
                        G                         G7                            C  
          oh, someone to call me their own.
                                                          C7                    F  
          Oh, I wish I had someone to live with,
                                G                    G7                            C  
          for I'm tired of living all alone.
                                        C                    C7                              F  
          Please do meet me tonight in the moonlight,
                                        G                      G7                      C  
          please do meet me tonight all alone,
                                                          C7                                    F  
          for I have a sad story I'll tell you,
                                  G                            G7                      C  
          it's a story that's never been told.
                                  C                                    C7                      F  
          I'll be carried to the new jail tomorrow,
                                G                    G7              C  
          leaving my poor darling alone,
                                                                  C7                      F  
          with the cold prison bars all around me,
                                G                    G7                         C  
          and my head on a pillow of stone.
                             C                                 C7                      F  
          But I have a great ship on the ocean,
                        G                            G7                         C  
          all mounted with silver and gold,
                                                             C7                                 F  
          and before my poor darling would suffer
                                          G              G7                              C  
          this ship would be anchored and sold.
                             C                         C7                            F  
          Oh,    if I had the wings of a swallow,
                             G                         G7                                 C  
          over these prison walls I would fly,
                                                                C7                                      F  
          I would    fly to the arms of my poor darling,
                          G                            G7                              C  
          and there I'd be willing for to die.
                                        C                    C7                              F  
          Please do meet me tonight in the moonlight,
                                        G                      G7                      C  
          please do meet me tonight all alone,
                                                          C7                                    F  
          for I have a sad story I'll tell you,
                                  G                            G7                      C      F  C  
          it's a story that's never been told.

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