Sweetheart, a prisoner's last letter
I have to send to you today
But when you read these lines of sorrow
My soul will then have passed away
For at the dawn of day tomorrow,
I then will pay for my mistake.
God gave me courage for this message,
I've realized my sin to reign.
I'll let a deer in from a prisoner,
don't shed a tear when I am gone.
I've troubled you too much already
I hate to leave you all alone
As if in dreams I see you smiling
Your pretty eye s are like a song
You warned me, darling, now I'm pining
You knew that I was do ing wrong
Outside the shadows now I'm falling
They circle me, complete my life
I'll soon be gone, and when I'm dying
I'll think of you an d pay the price
I hear the guard outside my window,
and on his rams he sleeps so slow.
It seems he's trying me to comfort,
it seems he hates to see me go.
Please take this message to my mother
And give her all my love and cheer
This final message now I'm writing
To the I'll always love so dear
A letter, dear, and from a prisoner
Don't shed a tear when I am gone
I trouble you too much already,
I hate to leave you all alone.
