Meet Me By The Moonlight, Alone

I'm going to my new jail tomorrow

To leave the one that I love

To leave my friends and relations

And oh, how lonely my love

   Meet me by the moonlight, love meet me

   Meet me by the moonlight alone

   For I have a sad story to tell you

   To be told by the moonlight, alone

My parents how cruel they treat me

They drive me away from their door

If I live a hundred years longer

I'll never go back any more

If I had a ship on the ocean

All laid and lined with pure gold

Before my darling should suffer

I'd have that ship anchored and sold

I I had someone to love me

Someone to call me their own

Someone to always stay with me

I'm tired of living alone

If I had the wings of an angel

O'er land and sea I'd fly

I'd fly to the arms of my darling

And I'd be willing to die

Recorded 5/9/28 Camden, NJ
                 5/10/35 New York, NY