A popular song from 1931
Words and music by Leo Robin, Clarence Gaskill and Russ Columbo
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Someone that I belong to
Doesn’t belong to me
Someone who can’t be faithful
Knows that I have to be
Wonder if I am wrong to
Give her my loyalty
Why should I be a lone soul?
Why can’t I own my own soul?
Refrain
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