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