Buddy Miller - Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie lyrics

"O bury me not on the lone prairie" These words came low and mournfully From the pallid lips of the youth who lay On his dying bed at the end of the day "It matters not", I've often been told "Where the body lies when the heart grows cold" But grant, o grant, this wish to me And bury me not on the lone prairie I've always wished that when I die To be buried there on the green hillside By my father's grave, there let mine be And bury me not on the lone prairie "O bury me not", and his voice failed there But we took no heed of his dying prayer In a narrow grave, barely six by three They buried him there on the lone prairie