27. The Prisoner's Song- McCue (WV) 1925
[Dalhart's version, an adaptation of "Meet Me in the Moolight" titled, "Prisoner's Song," came out in Summer of 1924 and became the biggest selling record of the early country era, selling over a million (some estimates are much higher) units within several years of its release.]
27 - THE PRISONER'S SONG
Communicated by Miss Jessie McCue, Hookersvillo, Nicholas County, November 10, 1925. Music noted by Miss Lydia I. Hinkel.
[music]
Major. Ionian.
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Oh, I wish I had someone to love me,
Someone to call me her own;
Oh, I wish I had someone to live with,
For I'm tired of living alone.
Won't you meet me to-night in the moonlight?
Won't you meet me to-nlght all alone?
For I have a sad story to tell you,
tIls a story tbat's never been to1d.
I'll be oarried to the new jail to-norrow,
And leavo nY Poor darllng alonor
Ttlth the oold prlson walls all around mee
And rry head on a Pillow of stone.
I havo a grand ship on the ocean,
'Tis all mountod in sllver and gold,
dnd before ny poor darllng shall euffer'
That ship would bo anchored and sold.
0h, I wish I had wlngs llke an angele
0r or my prlson rvalle I would flY;
I would fly to the arms of ny darllngr
And there Itd be willlng to dier
Soe NC III 411.