The Prisoner's Song

Here for "Remington" and all is this American Civil war folk song 
as per tabbs by harplov1 "Prisoners Lament" but with lyrics.<br /><br /> 6  6  7   4 -4   5  -4  4   -5  -5<br />Oh, I wish I had someone to love me,<br /> -7 -6  5   5   -5   5   -4<br />Someone to call me their own.<br /> 6  6  7   4 -4    5 -4  4   -5   -5<br />Oh, I wish I had someone to live with<br />  -5   -5    -7  -6  5 5   -4 4<br />'Cause I'm tired of livin' alone.<br /><br />Same melody for the following verses.<br /><br />2 Oh, please meet me tonight in the moonlight,<br />  Please meet me tonight all alone,<br />  For I have a sad story to tell you,<br />  It's a story that's never been told<br /><br />3 I'll be carried to the new jail tomorrow,<br />  Leaving my poor darling alone,<br />  With the cold prison bars all around me<br />  And my head on a pillow of stone.<br /><br />4 Now I have a grand ship on the ocean,<br />  All mounted with silver and gold,<br />  And before my poor darlin' would suffer,<br />  Oh, that ship would be anchored and sold.<br /><br />5 Now if I had the wings of an Angel<br />  Over these prison walls I would fly,<br />  And I'd fly to the arms of my poor darlin',<br />  And there I'd be willing to die.<br /><br />Yours Harmusman