{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1958773,"song":"Oh Bury Me Not","artist":"Johnny Cash","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1958773-oh-bury-me-not-chords-by-johnny-cash/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1958773?type=chord","rating":4.96351,"votes":19,"content":"[tab]Chord fingering \r\n   A  E\r\nE|-0--0----|\r\nB|-2--1----|\r\nG|-2--2----|\r\nD|-2--2----|\r\nA|-0--1----|\r\nE|----0----|[/tab]\r\n\r\n [rather spoken than sung]\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\n   Lord, I've never lived where churches grow, [/tab]\r\n[tab]                                     [ch]E[/ch]\r\n    I loved creation better as it stood,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\n    that day you finished it so long ago,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    and looked upon your work and called it good.[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    I know that others find you in the light,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                               [ch]E[/ch]\r\n    that sifted down through tinted window panes,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\n    and yet I seem to feel you near tonight[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                           [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    in this dim, quiet starlight on the plains.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    I thank you, Lord, that I'm placed so well,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                         [ch]E[/ch]\r\n    that you've made my freedom so complete,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\n    that I'm no slave to whistle, clock or bell,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    nor weak-eyed prisoner of Waller Street.[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    Just let me live my life as I've begun,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                        [ch]E[/ch]\r\n    and give me work that's open to the sky,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\n    make me a partner of the wind and sun,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                           [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    and I won't ask a life that's soft or high.[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    Let me be easy on the man that's down,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\n    let me be square and generous with all,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\n    I'm careless sometimes, Lord, when I'm in town,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                         [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    but never let ‘em say I'm mean or small.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    Make me as big and open as the plains,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                          [ch]E[/ch]\r\n    and honest as the horse between my knees,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\n    clean as the wind that blows behind the rains,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    free as the hawk that circles down the breeze.[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    Forgive me, Lord, if sometimes I forget,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                         [ch]E[/ch]\r\n    you know about the reasons that are hid,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]\r\n    you understand the things that gall or fret,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                              [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    well, you knew me better than my mother did. [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    Just keep an eye on all that's done or said,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                          [ch]E[/ch]\r\n    and right me sometimes when I turn aside,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\n    and guide me on that long, dim trail ahead[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                              [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    that stretches upward toward the great divide[/tab]\r\n \r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]                                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\n [sung] Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                      [ch]E[/ch] \r\n    these words came low and mournfully[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]A[/ch]  \r\n    from the pallid lips of a youth who lay[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                            [ch]A[/ch]  \r\n    on his dying bed at the close of day.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     N.C         [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    Oh, bury me not, and his voice failed there,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                         [ch]E[/ch]\r\n    but we took no heed to his dying prayer,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    in a shallow grave just six by three,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]                              [ch]A[/ch]\r\n    we buried him there on the lone prairie.[/tab]","plain_text":"[rather spoken than sung]\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n[Chorus]","chords":["A","E","B","G","D","C"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}