Prisoner's Song

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    Oh, I wish I had someone to love me,
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    oh, someone to call me their own.
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    Oh, I wish I had someone to live with,
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    for I'm tired of living all alone.

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    Please do meet me tonight in the moonlight,
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    please do meet me tonight all alone,
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    for I have a sad story I'll tell you,
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    it's a story that's never been told.

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    I'll be carried to the new jail tomorrow,
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    leaving my poor darling alone,
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    with the cold prison bars all around me,
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    and my head on a pillow of stone.

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    But I have a great ship on the ocean,
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    all mounted with silver and gold,
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    and before my poor darling would suffer
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    this ship would be anchored and sold.

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    Oh,  if I had the wings of a swallow,
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    over these prison walls I would fly,
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    I would  fly to the arms of my poor darling,
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    and there I'd be willing for to die.

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    Please do meet me tonight in the moonlight,
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    please do meet me tonight all alone,
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    for I have a sad story I'll tell you,
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    it's a story that's never been told.