Standard (EADGBE)

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.

II

I'll be carried to the new jail tomorrow,

Leaving my poor darling alone

With cold prison bars all around me

And my head on a pillow of stone.

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III

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

IV

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