Within My Prison Cell So Dreary

I Sit Alone With Achin' Heart

I'm Dreamin' Of My Little Darlin'

From Her Forever, I Must Part



The Rose She Sent Me As A Token

She Sent It Just To Lighten My Gloom

And Tell Me That Her Heart Was Broken

And Cheer Me Before I Meet My Doom



She Wrote I Picked It From The Garden,

Where Once We Wandered Side By Side.

Now You Hold No Hope Of Pardon,

And I Can Never Be Your Bride.



The Judge Would Not Believe My Story

The Jury Said I Had To Pay

And With The Rose In All Its Glory

"Not Guilty" Was All That I Could Say



Goodbye, Sweetheart, For In The Morning

To Meet My Maker I Must Go

And When I Die At Daylight's Dawnin'

Against My Heart They'll Find This Rose



Within My Prison Cell So Dreary

I Sit Alone With Achin' Heart

I'm Dreamin' Of My Little Darlin'

From Her Forever, I Must Part