I
wish I had someone to love me
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I wish I had someone to love me, someone to call me their own,
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someone to sleep with me nightly, I‘m weary of sleeping alone.
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1. Meet me tonight in the moonlight, meet me tonight all alone,
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I have a sad story to tell
you, I‘m telling it under the moon.
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2. Though it‘s our last night together, nearest and dearest to part,
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the love that has held us
together is shredded and torn all apart.
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3. I wish I had ships on the ocean, I‘d lace them with silver and gold,
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and sail to the banks of my
true love, a lad of nineteen years old.
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4. I wish I had wings of a swallow, I‘d fly out over the sea,
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I‘d fly to the arms of my true
love, and bring him home safely to me.
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+ I‘m weary of sleeping alone.
(Imelda May & The
Dubliners)