Al Capone’s prison love song released

? He never sang to the feds, but it turns out Al Capone had a song in his heart. All it took was a stint in Alcatraz to bring it out.

Now, more than 70 years later, the tender love song that the crime boss penned is being recorded and released on CD. An inscribed copy of the music and lyrics to “Madonna Mia” is for sale at $65,000.

“It’s a beautiful song, a tearjerker,” said Rich Larsen of Caponefanclub.com, who helped line up musicians and singers to record it.

The story of “Madonna Mia” begins in a cell in Alcatraz, where Scarface was sent after getting pinched for tax evasion. Capone, an opera and jazz lover whose speakeasies hired musicians like Louis Armstrong, apparently had time to kill.

Capone could read music and liked to play a banjo and a mandola — like a mandolin, only bigger. According to Larsen, the gangster begged the warden for permission to form a small band.

The warden relented, and the inmates sent away for instruments.

Enter Vincent Casey. As part of his training to become a Jesuit priest, Casey would visit Alcatraz to offer spiritual counsel to prisoners in the 1930s. Casey and Capone talked every Saturday for two years, said Casey’s son, Mike Casey, a retired airline employee in Temecula, Calif. “My father spoke very highly of him,” he said. “He told me … he was very humble and polite and courteous.”

One Christmas, Capone presented his friend with a piece of sheet music, “Madonna Mia.” “With your true love to guide me, let whatever betide me, I will never go wrong,” Capone wrote. “There’s only one moon above, one golden sun, there’s only one that I love, you are the one.”