Moonlight
The Prisoner's Song

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Meet me by moonlight alone, And then I will tell you a tale, Must be told by the moonlight alone, In the grove at the end of the vale. You must promise to come, for I said I would show the night flowers their queen, Nay, turn not away that sweet head! 'Tis the loveliest ever was seen! |: Oh! meet me by moonlight alone, Meet me by moonlight alone! :| 1. Meet me tonight, lover, meet me, O meet me in the moonlight alone, I have a sad story to tell you, Must be told in the moonlight alone. 2. I'm going to jail to-morrow, And leave my poor darlin' alone, With the cold prison bars all around me, And my head on a pillow of stone.

3. Your father and mother don't like me, Or they'd never've drove me from their door; If I had my life to live over I would never go there no more. 4. 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 lying tongue. 5. If I had a-minded my mother I had been with her today, But I was young and foolish And you stole my heart away. 6. I have three ships on the ocean all laden with silver and gold; And before my darlin' should suffer I'd have them all anchored and sold. 7. If I had the wings of an eagle Across the wide sea I would fly. I would fly to the arms of my darling And there I would stay till I die.