I Wish I Had Someone To Love Me Lyrics - Singles - Rogers Sally

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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