Standard (EADGBE)

 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.

II

 I'll be carried to the new jail tomorrow,

 Leaving my poor darling alone

 With cold prison bars all around me

 And my head on a pillow of stone.

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III

 Now I have a grand ship on the ocean

 All mounted with silver and gold

 And before my poor darling would suffer

 Oh! that ship would be anchored and sold

IV

 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 willing to die