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 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 i ll be carried to the new jail tomorrow leavin my poor darlin 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 darlin would suffer oh that ship would be anchored and sold 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 willin to die