The Prisoner's Song 1924

James Pitt-Payne and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia - 03 Nov 2002

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 livin' 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 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 willing to die.

Soft karaoke
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The Prisoner's Song 1924
by Guy Massey
copyright MCMXXIV by Shapiro, Bernstein and Co. Inc.
sequence and karaoke by
James Pitt-Payne, London, UK and
Ian Cousins, Opera Australia
on Sunday 03 November 2002 at 08.12
in association with Doug Grierson
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