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Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie

from Seed & Silo by Rebekah Rolland

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Recorded as a part of the National Parks Centennial Residency Program
Traditional Music and Lyrics
Recording administered by Modern Works Publishing | ©℗ Sky Island Records | All rights reserved

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“Bury me not on the lone prairie”/These words he spoke came mournfully/From the cold, pale lips of a youth who lay/At his dying bed at the close of day//

He wasted time ‘til upon his brow/The dew- drop clouds were a gathering now/He thought of his home and his friends so nigh/All the cowboys gathered to see him die//

I always thought I’d be laid when I died/In the old churchyard by the green hillside/By the side of my father let my grave be/Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie//

Bury me not on the lone prairie/Where the old coyotes may howl over me/Where the buffalo rome and the wind blows free/Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie//

I want to be laid where my mother’s prayers/And sister’s tears will linger there/Where my friends can come and weep over me/Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie//

”Bury me not” and his voice fell there/We heeded not his dying prayer/In a narrow grave, just six by three/We buried our boy on the lone prairie//

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from Seed & Silo, track released July 20, 2018
Engineered by Matt Rolland and Petie Ronstadt (Landmark Sound Recorders)

Mixed and Mastered by Philip Shaw Bova at Bova Lab Studio

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Rebekah Rolland Tucson, Arizona

Rebekah Rolland is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter based in Tucson. Characteristic of some of the most forceful and compelling voices in folk music, Rolland’s writing succeeds in building worlds of dust and clay, worn pages and weathered pearls, highways and high rises, the faces and hands, the trials and triumphs that make up the stories of the past and the present. ... more

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