Meet Me By the Moonlight Alone
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Meet Me By the Moonlight Alone – Source MP3
From the Carter Family’s Anchored In Love: Their Complete Victor Recordings 1927-1928
KEY OF G: Fiddles tuned to GDAE, Banjos tuned to gDGBD
BAND • FIDDLE • GUITAR • BANJO • HARMONIES • LYRICS
BAND
Meet Me by the Moonlight Banjo Tab
Meet Me By the Moonlight Alone
From the Carter Family
I’m going to the new jail tomorrow
To leave the one that I love
To leave my friends and relations
And, oh, how lonely, my love
Chorus:
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 100 years longer
I’ll never go back any more
Chorus
If I had a ship on the ocean
All laden and lined with pure gold
Before my darling should suffer
I’d have that ship anchored and sold
Chorus
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
Then I’d be willing to die
Chorus