Standard (EADGBE)

When I die won't you please feed me

To the lions of the Kalahari

I don't care if they eat my bones

Cause I know I won't be going home

(Chorus)

Oh, it's never far away from me

Oh, it's never far away from me

Rubber on dust as the wheels go round

I had never heard a sweeter sound

Till the day that I heard my baby cry

These things I shall carry until I die

Chorus

The rains came heavy and we closed our eyes

And listened to the song pouring from the skies

Two miles from the border as the eagle flies

But the desert is the same on the other side

Musical Interlude (4 bars each):

The leaves on Mt. Royal turn from green to gold

And crimson as the autumn light takes hold

October's here, I'm another year old

There'll be more tellin' 'fore my story is told

Oh, When I die won't you please feed me

To the lions of the Kalahari

I don't care if they eat my bones

Cause I know I won't be going home

Oh, it's never far away from me

Oh, it's never far away from me

Chorus repeated to end