"The Prisoner's Song" lyrics - BILL MONROE
BILL MONROE
"The Prisoner's Song"
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, 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 the wings of an angel,
Over these prison walls I would fly.
And I'd fly to the arms of my darling,
And there I'd be willing to die.
Bluegrass Special 1950-1954 (1975)
- Bluegrass Ramble
- My Little Georgia Rose
- Alabama Waltz
- The Old Fiddler
- The Prisoner's Song
- Travelin' Blues
- Rotation Blues
- Lonesome Truck Driver Blues
- Cabin Of Love
- Country Waltz
- A Mighty Pretty Waltz
- Pike County Breakdown
- Wishing Waltz
- I Hope You Have Learned
- Sitting Alone In The Moonlight
- Changing Partners