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Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie

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Bury me not on the lone prairie
These words came low and mournfully
From the cold pale lips of a youth who lay
On his dying bed at the close of day

He'd wasted time till upon his brow
The shadowed clouds were gathering now
He thought of his home and his friends so nigh
The cowboys gathered to see him die

I fancy I'll think of the well-known word
Of the free wild wind and the songs of birds
He thought of his home and the cottonwood there
And the songs he learnt in his childhood hour

I always thought I'd be laid when I die
In the old churchyard on the green hillside
Next to my father let my gravesite be
Bury me not on the lone prairie

Bury me not on the lone prairie
Where the wild coyote may howl over me
Where the buffalo roam and the wind blows free
Bury me not on the lone prairie

I want to be laid where my mother's prayers
And my sister's tears can mingle there
Where my friend's will come and weep over me
Bury me not on the lone prairie

Bury me not and his words slowed there
We heeded not his final prayer
In a shallow grave just six by three
We buried him there on the lone prairie

We buried him there on the lone prairie
Where the buffalo roam and the wind blows free
Where the rattlesnakes rattle and the tumbleweed blows
Across his grave on the lone prairie

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from Catgut, released January 17, 2014
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old time music from the inner west and outer space

Photo by Paul Liu.
'Catgut' artwork by Aryadharma.
'Flying Spiders Over Texas' artwork by Emma Louise.
'Rabbit on the Road' artwork by Bill Hope.
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