Lone Prairie, Sheet Music

This item is part of the I. G. Greer Folksong Collection which consists of more than 300 individual song titles and their variants as collected by Isaac Garfield Greer (1881-1967) from informants, primarily in Ashe, Wilkes and Watauga counties. The collection includes manuscripts, typescript transcriptions produced by Dr. Greer’s clerical staff, and handwritten musical notations. Songs range from traditional Child Ballads, traditional English and Scottish ballads as well as their American variants, to 19th century popular music to musical compositions of local origin.

Ballads

Cowboys--Songs and music

Death--Songs and music

Last words--Songs and music

Burial--Songs and music

The Dyeing Cowboy, The Dying Cowboy's Prayer, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie, Oh Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie

AC.113 Isaac Garfield (I.G.) Greer Papers and Recordings

W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

Greer, I. G. (Isaac Garfield), 1881-1967

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Notated music

English

The Dying Cowboy

Oh, bury me no on the lone prairie.
These words come slow and mournfully from the palid lips of the youth who lay on his dying couch at the close of day.

Brown, Native American Ballads - 262 Randolph, 184 Laws, B 2 Cox, 54

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