Lyr. Add: PRISONER SONG
(Sung by Max Hunter, 1969)

O, meet me tonight, lover meet me
O, meet me tonight all alone
For I have a sad story to tell you
Must be told in the moonlight alone.

I am going to a new jail, tomorrow
An' leave my poor darlin' alone
With the cold prison bars all around me
And my head on a pillow of stone.

Your father an' mother don't like me
Or they never would have drove me from their door
If I had my life to live over
I would never go there any more.

O, I wish I had never been born
Or had died when I was young
I would never have saw your sweet face
Or heard your lie'n tongue.

If I had a-minded my Mother
I would have been with her today
But I was young an' foolish
And you stole my heart away.

If I had three ships on the ocean
All laden with silver an' gold
And before my darlin' should suffer
I'd have them all anchored and sold.

If I had the wings of an angel
Across the wide sea I would fly
I would fly to the arms of my darlin'
And there I'd be willin' to die.

(MFH #521) As sung by Max Hunter, Springfield, MO, 11969.
Prisoner Song