Sally Rogers I Wish I Had Someone To Love Me Lyrics

I WISH I HAD SOMEONE TO LOVE ME

   First verse & Chorus:

   I wish I had someone to love me,

   Someone to call me his own,

   Someone to sleep with me nightly,

   I weary of sleeping alone.

   Meet me tonight in the moonlight,

   Meet me tonight all alone,

   I have a sad story to tell you

   I'm telling it under the moon.

   Tonight is our last night together,

   Nearest and dearest must part,

   The love that has bound us together

   Is shredded and torn apart.

   I wish I had ships on the ocean

   Lined with silver and gold

   Follow the ship that he sails in

   A lad of 19 years-old.

   I wish I had wings of a swallow,

   Fly out over the sea

   Fly to the arms of my true love

   And bring him home safely to me.

   Apparently  before this song went through the folk process,  it was

   one of Vernon Dahlhart's country hits of the late  30's.  It  went

   under the title of "The Prisoner's Song" and a snatch of  it

   is used at the end of the Bogart movie,  Deadend. Sally Rogers

   learned this version from Lisa Null,  who heard Irish singer

   Joe Heaney  perform it.

   I learned it summer 1982.

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