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The Prisoner's Song
written by vernon dalhart




THE PRISONER'S SONG  -  THE ET BOYS
THE PRISONER'S SONG   (SCREEN SONGS)   1930


The Prisoner's Song was one of the top-selling songs of the 1920's. Sheet music sales was the typical way to gage music sales in the 1920's, and this was the first country song to sell over 1 million copies. The song was copyrighted and recorded in 1924 by Vernon Dalhart. He had reportedly heard the song from his cousin, who had heard it from his brother - a former prisoner. The authorship of the song has been a major controversy - one story claims that the songs lyrics had been discovered on the walls of a Georgia cellblock. In 1930, the song was the plot basis for a Screen Songs short, which featured a bouncing teardrop in the place of Fleischer's famous Bouncing Ball. The teardrop bounces over the song's lyrics for almost an entire three minutes. The Prisoner's Song also appears briefly in scenes from several other Fleischer Studio's films.


1925

VERNON
​DALHART


1925

​GEORGE M.
RENEAU


1925

​DAVE
KAPLAN'S
MELODISTS


192?

​DOCK
​BOGGS


1930

AL BOWLLY &
RAY NOBLE

(sung in
Afrikaans)


1937

BUNNY
​BERIGAN
AND HIS
ORCHESTRA


​

1951

BILL
​MONROE

1951

PATTI
​PAGE

1952

THE LILY
BROTHERS


19??

TABANYI
MIHALY

1955

KAY
​STARR


1956

SONNY
​BURGESS

1957

LOUIS
​ARMSTRONG

1958

FATS
​DOMINO

1958

JOE
​JONES

1958

WARREN
​STORM

1958

SLIM
​WHITMAN

1959

EARL
​SCRUGGS

1961

BRENDA
​LEE

19??

ELVIS
PRESLEY

1962

DUANE
EDDY

1962

​HYLO
BROWN
AND THE
​TIMBERLINERS

1962

FLATT
& SCRUGGS

1964

HANK
​SNOW

1964

GENE
BARRY


1965

MAUREEN
MOORE


1966

DAVID
GRISMAN​

1970

BRIAN
​COLL

1971

JOHNNY
​CASH


1972

LARRY
JEFFERSON

1976

SONNY
​JAMES

1978

​ROLAND
​WHITE

1987

MAC
​WISEMAN

199?

JOHN
​HOGAN

1996

JOE VAL
AND THE
NEW ENGLAND
BLUEGRASS
BOYS


19??

EUGENE
DOONAN

2000

DAVID
ALLEN
​COE

2002

DEL
McCOURY

20??

SISTER
​SADLE

​2008

THE
OSBOURNE
​BROTHERS

2010

ROLAND
WHITE


2014

RUSTY
DEDRICK

2016

MIKE
COMPTON
& MICHAEL
DAVES



PLAYER
PIANO


THE PRISONER'S SONG

Oh, I wish I had some-one to love me
Some-one to call me their own
Oh, I wish I had some-one to live with
'Cause I'm ti-red of liv-in' a-lone

Oh, please meet me to-night in the moon-light
Please meet me to-night all a-lone
For I have a sad sto-ry to tell you
It's a sto-ry that's nev-er been told

I'll be car-ried to the new jail to-mor-row
Leav-ing my poor dar-ling all a-lone
With the cold pris-on bars all a-round me
And my head on a pil-low of stone

Now I have a grand ship on the o-cean
All mount-ed with sil-ver and gold
And be-fore my poor dar-lin' would suf-fer
Oh! That ship would be an-chored and sold

Now if I had wings like an an-gel
O-ver these pri-son walls I would fly
And I'd fly to the arms of my poor dar-lin'
And there I'd be wil-ling to die


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