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Thread #24587 Message #1239742
Posted By: Joe Offer
03-Aug-04 - 05:18 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: New Prisoner's Song (Boggs, et al.)
Subject: Lyr Add: PRISONER'S SONG (from Helen Creighton)
And the notes from the Gordon Collection lead us to Helen Creighton, Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia, #141:
Prisoner's Song
Oh, it's hard to be locked up in prison, Kept away from your own heart's delight, With cold iron bars all around you, And a stone for your pillow by night.
Chorus: Lonely and sad; sadly alone, Sitting in my cell all alone, I've been thinking of the days that's gone by me, The days when I know I have done wrong.
sung by Mr. Edward Hartley, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia