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:
Carl T. Sprague [as Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie, which is the first line of this song]
Vernon Dalhart [idem]
Pickard Family [idem]
Bill Childers [idem]
Carter Family [as Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie]
Johnny Cash [als Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie]
Sleepy LaBeef [idem]
David Allan Coe [as O Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie]
William Elliott Whitmore [in video game Red Dead Redemption]
Buddy Miller [as Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie; vocal: Marc Ribot]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)