Meet me by the moonlight alone
G C G D G
1. I'm going to the new jail tomorrow to leave the one that I love,
G C G D G
to
leave my friends and relations, and know how lonely my love.
G C G
Meet me by the moonlight, love, meet me,
D G
meet me by the moonlight alone,
G C G
for I have a sad story to tell
you,
D G
to be told by the moonlight
alone.
+ instrumental = CHORUS
G C G D G
2. My parents have cruelly treat me, they drive
me away from their door,
G C G D G
if I
live a hundred years longer, I'll never go back anymore.
G C G D G
3. If I had a ship on the ocean, all laid and lined with pure gold,
G C G D G
before
my darling should suffer, I'd have that ship anchored and sold.
+ CHORUS +
instrumental = CHORUS
G C G D G
4. If I had someone to love me, someone to call me their own,
G C G D G
someone
to always be with me, I’m tired of living alone.
G C G D G
5. If I had the wings of an angel, o'er land and sea I’d fly,
G C G D G
I'd fly to the arms of my
darling, and I'd be willing to die.
+ CHORUS
(orig. = capo 1st) (The Carter
Family)