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, don't let me be a prisoner
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, don't let me be a prisoner
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, don't let me be a prisoner
You made me a prisoner, you made me love you
Take the shackles of love and go away
'Cause I love you so much, now
You, you, you, you made me a prisoner