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 Oh, I wish I had someone to love me

 Yes, someone to call me their own

 Oh, I wish I had someone to live with

 Cause I'm tired of living all alone

 Please meet me tonight in the moonlight

 Please meet me tonight all alone

 For I have a sad story to tell you

 It's a story that's never been told

 I'll be carried to the new jail tomorrow

 Leaving my poor ol' darling alone

 With the cold prison bars all around me

 And my head on a pillow of stone

 Now, I have a grand ship out on the ocean

 All mounted with silver and gold

 And before my poor darling would suffer

 That ship would be anchored and sold

 Now, if I had the wings of an angel

 Over these prison walls I would fly

 And I'd fly to the arms of my poor darling

 And there I'd be willing to die

 Oh, I wish I had someone to love me

 Yes, someone to call me their own

 Oh, I wish I had someone to live with

 Cause I'm tired of living all alone