DYING COWBOY, THE

Created on 13/07/2011
Latest update on 06/10/2023

Artist: Bentley Ball
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1920

Lyrically related with sea shantee O Bury Me Not In The Deep Deep Sea. Not to be comfused with the Dying Cowboys in many American variations on St. James Infirmary (see there).

Covers:

1926:

Carl T. Sprague [as Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie, which is the first line of this song]

1927:

Vernon Dalhart [idem]

1927:

Pickard Family [idem]

1928:

Bill Childers [idem]

1928:

Jules Verne Allen

1932:

Asa Martin

1939:

Carter Family [as Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie]

1952:

Cisco Houston

1959:

Tex Ritter

1961:

Burl Ives

1966:

Johnny Cash [als Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie]

1976:

Sleepy LaBeef [idem]

1981:

Moe Bandy

2002:

David Allan Coe [as O Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie]

2010:

William Elliott Whitmore [in video game Red Dead Redemption]

2011:

Buddy Miller [as Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie; vocal: Marc Ribot]

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