first recorded by writer Columbo in 1932
Words by Leo Robin and Music by Russ Columbo and Clarence Gaskill
Alone from night to night you’ll find me
Too weak to break the chains that bind me
I need no shackles to remind me
I’m just a prisoner of love
For one command I stand and wait now
From one who’s master of my fate now
I can’t escape for it’s too late now
I’m just a prisoner of love
What’s the good of my caring if someone is sharing those arms with me
Although she has another, I can’t have another for I’m not free
She’s in my dreams awake or sleeping
Upon my knees to her I’m creeping
My very life is in her keeping
I’m just a prisoner of love
What’s the good of my caring if someone is sharing those arms with me
Although she has another, I can’t have another for I’m not free
She’s in my dreams awake or sleeping
Upon my knees to her I’m creeping
My very life is in her keeping
I’m just a prisoner of love
Transcribed by Ronald E. Hontz