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 Oh Bury Me Not
 Adapted and arranged by Johnny Cash
 Original Copyright (c)Southwind Music, Inc. administered by Warner Chappell Music.
 Published by Warner Chappell Music, Inc. ASCAP


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 Recitation:
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 Lord, I've never lived where churches grow
 I loved creation better as it stood
 That day you finished it so long ago
 And looked upon your work and called it good
 I know that others find you in the light
 That sifted down through tinted window panes
 And yet I seem to feel you near tonight
 In this dim, quiet starlight on the plains
 I thank you, Lord, that I'm placed so well
 That you've made my freedom so complete
 That I'm no slave to whistle, clock or bell
 Nor weak eyed prisoner of Waller Street
 Just let me live my life as I've begun
 And give me work that's open to the sky
 Make me a partner of the wind and sun
 And I won't ask a life that's soft or high
 Let me be easy on the man that's down
 Let me be square and generous with all
 I'm careless sometimes, Lord, when I'm in town
 But never let them say I'm mean or small
 Make me as big and open as the plains
 And honest as the horse between my knees
 Clean as a wind that blows behind the rains
 Free as the hawk that circles down the breeze
 Forgive me, Lord, if sometimes I forget
 You know about the reasons that are hid
 You understand the things that gall or fret
 Well, you knew me better than my mother did
 Just keep an eye on all that's done or said
 And right me sometimes when I turn aside
 And guide me on that long, dim trail ahead
 That stretched upward toward the great divide

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 Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie
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 These words came low and mournfully
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 From the pallid lips of a youth who lay
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 On his dying bed at the close of day

 Oh, bury me not and his voice failed there
 But we took no heed to his dying prayer
 In a shallow grave just six by three
 We buried him there on the lone prairie.

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"O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie"
Here is the dying cowboy ballad "O Bury Me Not on the lone Prairie". This song is in the public domain. This is my arrangement of it. Thanks for viewing.

O Bury Me Not- Johnny Cash

903. Bury Me Not On the Lone Prairie (Traditional American)
Also known as "The Cowboy's Lament", "The Dying Cowboy" and "Bury Me Out on the Lone Prairie", this ballad must be the best known of all cowboy songs. It began as a sailor's song called "The Sailor's Grave" or "The Ocean-Burial" with the opening line, "O bury me not in the deep, deep sea." The cowboy lyrics go back to the 1800s, but were set to a different tune from the one commonly used now, which first appeared in print in 1932, though the lyrics that came with it had the opposite request - "Bury me out on the lone prairie." The song has been recorded by many artists, including Johnny Cash, Burl Ives, Jimmie Rodgers,Tex Ritter, Sarah Harmer and Sons of the Pioneers.

The Lone Prairee / Oh Bury Me Not
This song most likely came from Scotland (tune is like "Hind Horn" Ballad) migrated by ship to Canada where it became "The Ocean Burial" and then travelled south-west, where it became "The Lone Prairee" and still later "Oh, Bury Me Not" I tried to incorporate two known melody-lines in my version. I started playing this when I was asked by the great saxophone player William Raaijman to figure out the original "cowboy songs" in a concert-series that featured "A Paraphrase on Two Western Cowboy Songs or The Lone Prairee" from Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935) and play them as an illustration to that piece. He did funny things in his concerts; yes he did; William.. Not long before William died -he was just 35- he made me promise to record these two songs. They were included in a studio CD (klets-akoestisch) a few years ago and now in a livingroom-setting on youtube. The song "Moaning Dove" was uploaded to youtube earlier. Setup: Rode M3 microphone (overhead-orientation) through Samson S-mix for pre-amp and phantom power straight into soundcard of imac. Nothing fancy, no editing.

Johnny Cash Live In Atlantic City 1995 (Part 3)
Johnny live in Atlantic City Part 3. Songs: Cowboy's Prayer/Oh Bury Me Not Over The Next Hill (We'll Be Home) Ring Of Fire Part 4 later today. Enjoy :)