Oh Bury Me Not

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 [rather spoken than sung]
[Verse 1]
A
   Lord, I've never lived where churches grow,
E
    I loved creation better as it stood,
E
    that day you finished it so long ago,
A
    and looked upon your work and called it good.
A
    I know that others find you in the light,
E
    that sifted down through tinted window panes,
E
    and yet I seem to feel you near tonight
A
    in this dim, quiet starlight on the plains.
A
    I thank you, Lord, that I'm placed so well,
E
    that you've made my freedom so complete,
E
    that I'm no slave to whistle, clock or bell,
A
    nor weak-eyed prisoner of Waller Street.
A
    Just let me live my life as I've begun,
E
    and give me work that's open to the sky,
E
    make me a partner of the wind and sun,
A
    and I won't ask a life that's soft or high.
A
    Let me be easy on the man that's down,
E
    let me be square and generous with all,
E
    I'm careless sometimes, Lord, when I'm in town,
A
    but never let ‘em say I'm mean or small.
A
    Make me as big and open as the plains,
E
    and honest as the horse between my knees,
E
    clean as the wind that blows behind the rains,
A
    free as the hawk that circles down the breeze.
A
    Forgive me, Lord, if sometimes I forget,
E
    you know about the reasons that are hid,
E
    you understand the things that gall or fret,
A
    well, you knew me better than my mother did. 
A
    Just keep an eye on all that's done or said,
E
    and right me sometimes when I turn aside,
E
    and guide me on that long, dim trail ahead
A
    that stretches upward toward the great divide
[Chorus]
A
sung
  Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie,
E
    these words came low and mournfully
A
    from the pallid lips of a youth who lay
E A
    on his dying bed at the close of day.
A
     N.C         
    Oh, bury me not, and his voice failed there,
E
    but we took no heed to his dying prayer,
A
    in a shallow grave just six by three,
E A
    we buried him there on the lone prairie.

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[rather spoken than sung]
[Verse 1]
[Chorus]

Oh Bury Me Not Chords by Johnny Cash

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