Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Publication Date
1925
Lyrics
[Stanza 1]
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:
[Stanza 2]
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
[Stanza 3]
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
[Stanza 4]
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.
[Stanza 5]
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
Recommended Citation
Massey, Guy, "Prisoner's Song" (1925). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1808.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1808
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Title page
“Ballad with Violin Obligato”
Words and Music by Guy Massey
Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. Music Publishers, New York
“The Prisoner’s Song Male Quartette” by Guy Massey, Page 2.
“A violin solo is suggested between the third and fourth stanzas”
Copyright MCMXXIV by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc. Cer. Broadway & 47th Street New York
Propiedad Asegurada Para La Republica Mexicana MCMXXIV.
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