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O Bury Me Not On the Lone Prairie
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"O 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 the youth who lay
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On his dying bed at the close of day.
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He had wasted and pined 'til o'er his brow
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Death's shades were slowly gathering now
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He thought of home and loved ones nigh,
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As the cowboys gathered to see him die.
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"O bury me not on the lone prairie
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Where coyotes howl and the wind blows free
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In a narrow grave just six by three"”
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O bury me not on the lone prairie"
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"It matters not, I've been told,
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Where the body lies when the heart grows cold
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Yet grant, o grant, this wish to me
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O bury me not on the lone prairie."
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"I've always wished to be laid when I died
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In a little churchyard on the green hillside
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By my father's grave, there let me be,
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O bury me not on the lone prairie."
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"I wish to lie where a mother's prayer
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And a sister's tear will mingle there.
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Where friends can come and weep o'er me.
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O bury me not on the lone prairie."
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"For there's another whose tears will shed.
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For the one who lies in a prairie bed.
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It breaks me heart to think of her now,
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She has curled these locks, she has kissed this brow."
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"O bury me not..." And his voice failed there.
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But they took no heed to his dying prayer.
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In a narrow grave, just six by three
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They buried him there on the lone prairie.
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And the cowboys now as they roam the plain,
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For they marked the spot where his bones were lain,
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Fling a handful o' roses o'er his grave
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With a prayer to God his soul to save.
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