Tablature o bury me not - Johnny Cash

          



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  Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 20:35:25 -0400 (EDT)

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   Oh Bury Me Not

   Adapted and arranged by Johnny Cash

   Original Copyright (c)Southwind Music, Inc. administered by Warner Chappell Music.

   Published by Warner Chappell Music, Inc. ASCAP

  

  

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   Recitation:

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   Lord, I've never lived where churches grow

   I loved creation better as it stood

   That day you finished it so long ago

   And looked upon your work and called it good

   I know that others find you in the light

   That sifted down through tinted window panes

   And yet I seem to feel you near tonight

   In this dim, quiet starlight on the plains

   I thank you, Lord, that I'm placed so well

   That you've made my freedom so complete

   That I'm no slave to whistle, clock or bell

   Nor weak eyed prisoner of Waller Street

   Just let me live my life as I've begun

   And give me work that's open to the sky

   Make me a partner of the wind and sun

   And I won't ask a life that's soft or high

   Let me be easy on the man that's down

   Let me be square and generous with all

   I'm careless sometimes, Lord, when I'm in town

   But never let them say I'm mean or small

   Make me as big and open as the plains

   And honest as the horse between my knees

   Clean as a wind that blows behind the rains

   Free as the hawk that circles down the breeze

   Forgive me, Lord, if sometimes I forget

   You know about the reasons that are hid

   You understand the things that gall or fret

   Well, you knew me better than my mother did

   Just keep an eye on all that's done or said

   And right me sometimes when I turn aside

   And guide me on that long, dim trail ahead

   That stretched upward toward the great divide

  

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   Oh, 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 a youth who lay

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   On his dying bed at the close of day

  

   Oh, bury me not and his voice failed there

   But we took no heed to his dying prayer

   In a shallow grave just six by three

   We buried him there on the lone prairie.

  

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 O bury me not, de Johnny cash 

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