BURY ME NOT-COWBOY MEDLEY - Song Page
© words & music by Annie Wilson
from CD Sky & Water, Wind & Grass
Album Note: In creating this arrangement of several early day cowboy songs collected by folklorists J. Frank Dobie & John Lomax, I’ve followed the folk tradition of adapting, combining, and composing. In the trail-driving days of the 1870’s and in custom-grazing today, many cattle come up from the southwest to fatten on Flint Hills pastures, so the Mexico-Texas- Kansas connection remains strong.
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LYRICS:
Oh bury me not on the lone prairie
Where the coyotes howl and the wind blows free
Where the dewdrops glow and the songbirds rest
And the flowers bloom by their prairie nest
These lonesome words are the last he’d tell
As he closed his eyes in his sad farewell
Oh bury me not on the lone prairie
Where the buff-a-loes cross the prairie sea
May the wild rose bloom as the breezes wave
If I have to sleep in a prairie grave
I’m goin to leave old Texas now
They’ve got no use for the longhorn cow
They’ve plowed and fenced my cattle range
And the people there are all so strange
I’ll take my horse, I’ll take my rope
I’ll hit the trail on a long slow lope
The hard, hard ground will be my bed
And the saddle seat will hold my head
I’ll make my home on the open range
For the people there are not so strange
I’ll bid adios to the Alamo
And turn my head down to Mexico