Standard (EADGBE)
"Oh bury me not on the lone Prairie"
These words came low and mourn - Em4ful - ly
From the pallid lips of a youth who lay
On his dying bed at the close of day.
He has wasted and pined 'til o'er his brow
Death's shades were slowly gatherEm4ing now.
He thought of home and loved ones nigh,
And the cowboys gathered to see him die.
"Oh bury me not on the lone Prairie,
Where the coyotes howl and the wiEm4nd blows free.
In a narrow grave just six by three
Oh bury me not on the lone Prairie."
"It matters not, I've oft been told,
Where the body lies when the hearEm4t grows cold.
Yet grant, oh grant, this wish to me,
Oh bury me not on the lone Prairie."
"I've always wished to be laid when I died
In a little churchyard on a greenEm4 hillside.
By my father's grave there let me be,
Oh bury me not on the lone Prairie."
"I wish to lie where a mother's prayer
And a sister's tear will mingle tEm4here.
Where friends can come and weep o'er me.
Oh bury me not on the lone Prairie."
"For there's another whose tears will shed
For the one who lies in a PrairieEm4 bed.
It breaks my heart to think of her now,
She has curled these locks; she has kissed this brow."
"Oh bury me not..." And his voice failed there
But they took no heed to his dyinEm4g prayer.
In a narrow grave, just six by three,
They buried him there on the lone Prairie.
And the cowboys now as they roam the plain
For they marked the spot where hiEm4s bones were lain,
Fling a handful of roses o'er his grave
With a prayer to God, his soul to save.