The Prisoner's Song chords by Loudon Wainwright III

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Verse 1
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Oh, I wish I had
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someone to love me
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Someone to call me their own
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Oh, I wish I had someone to live with
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Cause I'm tired of living alone
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Oh, please meet me tonight
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in the moonlight
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Please meet me tonight all alone
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For I have a sad story to tell you
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It's a story that's never been
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told
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I'll be carried to the
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new jail tomorrow
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Leaving my poor darlin' alone
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With the cold prison bars all around me
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And my head on a pillow of stone
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Now I have a grand ship on the ocean
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All mounted with silver and gold
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And before my poor darlin' would suffer
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Oh, that ship would be anchored and sold
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Now if I  had wings like an angel
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Over these prison walls I would fly
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And  I'd fly to the arms
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of my poor darlin'
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And there I'd be willin' to die