{"id":7383,"date":"2011-09-01T04:47:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T08:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2019-11-07T16:47:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:47:54","slug":"bury-me-not-on-the-lone-prairie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7383","title":{"rendered":"Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Bury_Me_Not.jpg\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bury_Me_Not.mp3\">Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n&#8220;Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie&#8221; is said to be the most famous cowboy song. It was derived from a sea lament called &#8220;The Sailor&#8217;s Grave&#8221; or &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mudcat.org\/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=9872\">The Ocean Burial<\/a>&#8221; which began with the line: &#8220;O bury me not in the deep deep sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A number of popular performers have recorded versions of &#8220;Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie&#8221; including Moe Bandy, Johnny Cash, Burl Ives, Tex Ritter and Roy Rogers. Some even turn the meaning around by saying &#8220;Bury Me Out On The Lone Prairie&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n                       (Capo on the 4th fret)<br \/>\n[C] &#8220;O bury me not on the lone prairie.&#8221;<br \/>\nThese words came [Dm] low and [G7] [C] mournfully<br \/>\n[C] From the pallid lips of the youth who lay<br \/>\nOn his dying [Dm] bed at the [G7] close of [C] day.<\/p>\n<p>He had wasted and pined &#8217;til o&#8217;er his brow<br \/>\nDeath&#8217;s shades were slowly gathering now<br \/>\nHe thought of home and loved ones nigh,<br \/>\nAs the cowboys gathered to see him die.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;O bury me not on the lone prairie<br \/>\nWhere coyotes howl and the wind blows free<br \/>\nIn a narrow grave just six by three\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nO bury me not on the lone prairie&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It matters not, I&#8217;ve been told,<br \/>\nWhere the body lies when the heart grows cold<br \/>\nYet grant, o grant, this wish to me<br \/>\nO bury me not on the lone prairie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always wished to be laid when I died<br \/>\nIn a little churchyard on the green hillside<br \/>\nBy my father&#8217;s grave, there let me be,<br \/>\nO bury me not on the lone prairie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish to lie where a mother&#8217;s prayer<br \/>\nAnd a sister&#8217;s tear will mingle there.<br \/>\nWhere friends can come and weep o&#8217;er me.<br \/>\nO bury me not on the lone prairie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For there&#8217;s another whose tears will shed.<br \/>\nFor the one who lies in a prairie bed.<br \/>\nIt breaks me heart to think of her now,<br \/>\nShe has curled these locks, she has kissed this brow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;O bury me not&#8230;&#8221; And his voice failed there.<br \/>\nBut they took no heed to his dying prayer.<br \/>\nIn a narrow grave, just six by three<br \/>\nThey buried him there on the lone prairie.<\/p>\n<p>And the cowboys now as they roam the plain,<br \/>\nFor they marked the spot where his bones were lain,<br \/>\nFling a handful o&#8217; roses o&#8217;er his grave<br \/>\nWith a prayer to God his soul to save.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie &#8211; Click To Play &#8220;Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie&#8221; is said to be the most famous cowboy song. It was derived from a sea lament called &#8220;The Sailor&#8217;s Grave&#8221; or &#8220;The Ocean Burial&#8221; which began with the line: &#8220;O &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7383\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cowboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8781,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions\/8781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}