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1	OH, BURY ME NOT (INTRODUCTION: A COWBOY'S PRAYER)						[Recitation:] Lord, I've never lived where	1
2	Written by: John A. Lomax[1], Alan Lomax[2], Tim Spencer[3] & Roy Rogers[4]						churches grow I loved creation better as it stood	2
3	Performed by: Johnny Cash						That day you finished it so long ago And looked	3
4	Appears on: American Recordings (I)-1994, God-2000 & Love, God, Murder-2000.						upon your work and called it good I know that	4
5							others find you in the light That sifted down	5
6							through tinted window panes And yet I seem to feel	6
7	[Recitation:]						you near tonight In this dim, quiet starlight on	7
8	Lord, I've never lived where churches grow.						the plains I thank you, Lord, that I'm placed so	8
9	I loved creation better as it stood,						well That you've made my freedom so complete That	9
10	That day you finished it so long ago,						I'm no slave to whistle, clock or bell Nor weak	10
11	And looked upon your work and called it good.						eyed prisoner of Waller Street Just let me live my	11
12	I know that others find you in the light,						life as I've begun And give me work that's open to	12
13	That sifted down through tinted window panes.						the sky Make me a partner of the wind and sun And	13
14	And yet I seem to feel you near tonight,						I won't ask a life that's soft or high Let me be	14
15	In this dim, quiet starlight on the plains.						easy                               on the man that's down Let me be square and	15
16	I thank you, Lord, that I'm placed so well,						generous with all              I'm careless sometimes, Lord,	16
17	That you've made my freedom so complete.						when I'm in town But never let them say I'm mean	17
18	That I'm no slave to whistle, clock or bell,						or small Make me as big and open as the plains And	18
19	Nor weak-eyed prisoner of Waller Street.						honest as the horse between my knees Clean as a	19
20	Just let me live my life       as I've begun,						wind that blows behind the rains Free as the hawk	20
21	And give me work that's open to the sky.						that circles down                         the breeze Forgive me, Lord, if	21
22	Make me a partner of        the wind and sun,						sometimes I forget You know about the reasons that	22
23	And I won't ask a life that's soft or high.						are hid You understand the things that gall or	23
24	Let                   me be easy on the man that's down,						fret Well, you knew me better than my mother did	24
25	Let me be square and generous with all.						Just keep an eye on all that's done or said And	25
26	I'm careless sometimes, Lord, when I'm in town,						right me sometimes        when I turn aside And guide me	26
27	But never let them say I'm mean or small.						on that long, dim trail ahead That stretched	27
28	Make me as big and open as the plains,						upward toward                         the great divide Oh, bury me not on	28
29	And honest as the horse between my knees.						the lone prairie These words came low and	29
30	Clean as the wind that blows behind the rains,						mournfully From the pallid lips of a youth who lay	30
31	Free as                 the hawk that circles down the breeze.						On his dying bed at the close of day Oh, bury me	31
32	Forgive me, Lord, if sometimes I forget,						not and his voice failed there But we took no heed	32
33	You know about the reasons that are hid.						to his dying prayer In a shallow grave just six by	33
34	You understand                         the things that gall or fret,						three We buried him there on the lone prairie.	34
1	Well, you knew me better than my mother did.							1
2	Just keep an eye on all that's done and said,							2
3	And right me sometimes when I turn aside.							3
4	And guide me on that long, dim trail ahead,							4
5	That stretches upward toward the great divide.							5
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7	[Sung:]							7
8	"Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie."							8
9	These words came low and mournfully,							9
10	From the pallid lips of a youth who lay,							10
11	On his dyin' bed at the close of day.							11
12								12
13	"Oh, bury me not..." and his voice failed there.							13
14	But we took no heed to his dying prayer.							14
15	In a shallow grave just six by three,							15
16	We buried him there on the lone prairie.							16
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19	[1]John Avery Lomax was a pioneering musicologist and American							19
20	folklorist.]							20
21								21
22	[2]Alan Lomax was John Avery's son and also a musicologist and							22
23	American folklorist.]							23
24								24
25	[3]Tim Spencer, along with Roy Rogers and Bob Nolan and founded							25
26	the Sons of the Pioneers western singing group. He received many							26
27	awards as a singer-songwriter.							27
28								28
29	[4]Roy Rogers was born, Leonard Franklin Slye, who became famous							29
30	as Roy Rogers, and as a singer, songwriter and cowboy actor.]							30

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