Johnny Cash Oh Bury Me Not Lyrics

Oh Bury Me Not Lyrics




[Recitation:] 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



Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie These words came low and mournfully From
the pallid lips of a youth who lay 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.