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