Chords for Prisoners Song --- Wilf Carter

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Oh, I wish I had someone [F] to love me.
[G] Oh, someone to call be [C] their own.
Oh, I wish I had [F] someone to live with.
[G] For I'm tired of [C] living alone. _
Pleased to meet me tonight [F] in the moonlight. _
[G] Pleased to meet me tonight [C] all alone.
For I have a sad [F] story I'll tell you.
[G] It's a story that's never [C] been told. _
I'll be carried to the new [F] jail tomorrow. _
[G] Leaving my poor darling [C] alone. _
With the cold prison bars [F] all around me.
[G] And my head on a [C] pillow of stone. _
But I have a great ship [F] on the ocean.
[G] All mounted with [C] silver and gold.
And before my poor [F] darling would suffer.
[G] This ship would be [C] anchored and sold.
Oh, if I had the wings [F] of a swallow. _
[G] Over these prison [C] walls I would fly.
I would fly to the arms of [F] my poor darling. _
[G] And there I'd be willing [C] for to die.
Pleased to meet me tonight [F] in the moonlight.
[G] Pleased to meet me tonight [C] all alone.
For I have a sad [F] story I'll tell you.
[G] It's a story that's never [C] been told.
[F] _