I think I'd like to post most of the versions from the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore. Some are very similar to what has been posted already, but Brown gives a wide view of all the versions of all the songs. Here's an excerpt from the notes in Brown:

THE PRISONER'S SONG (#350)
Miss Scarborough (SCSM 346) thinks this is a descendant of the English 'Here's Adieu to All Judges and Juries,' which is reported from Sussex in JFSS 1 135. In this country, especially in the Southern mountains, it has got mixed with a sentimental song by J. A. Wade, 'Meet Me in the Moonlight,' which has nothing to do with prisoners. In its characteristic Appalachian form it has three motives: the jail, the moonlight, and a ship. Nova Scotia texts (BSSNS 303, SBNS 309) know nothing of the ship or the moonlight. But texts from Virginia (SCSM 347-9), Kentucky (ASh 216-7), North Carolina (SCSM 349-51), and—as it happens—Iowa (MAFLS XXIX 49) have all three.

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Here's number 350A:

Meet Me in the Moonlight
Reported by Miss Amy Henderson of Worry, Burke County, NC, in 1914.

Off to the jail house tomorrow
Not far to leave my little darling alone,
With them cold iron bars around me
And my pillow is made of stone.

Chorus:
Meet me tonight, darling, meet me
Out in the moonlight alone,
For I have a secret to tell you
Must be told in the moonlight alone.

Oh, I heard that your parents don't like me,
They have driven me away from their door;
If I had those days to go over
I would never come back any more.

If I had a ship on the ocean
All lined with bright silver and gold,
Before my darling should suffer
My ship should he anchored and sold.

I am dying for some one to love me
And some one to call me their own,
For some one to be with me always
I am tired of living alone.

Dr. Brown notes on the manuscript that he heard the chorus as

Won't you meet me, won't you meet me by the moonlight,
Won't you meet me by the moonhight tonight?
I have a sweet story to tell you.
Won't you meet me by the moonlight tonight?

and one stanza as

I have three ships out on the ocean
All lined with silver and gold
....
I would have them ... and sold.

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#350 D (sung by A.E. Elliott of farmer, Randolph County, NC) is the same as #350A, with one additional verse as a fourth stanza:

If I had the wings of an angel
I would fly far, far away,
I would fly to the arms of my darling
And there I’d be willing to stay.