O bury me not on the lone prairie
Where the coyotes wail and the wind blows free
and when I die don't bury me
beneath the western sky on the lone prairie.

O bury me not on the lone prairie.
These words came soft and painfully
From the pallid lips of the youth who lay
On his dying bed at the break of day.

But we buried him there on the lone prairie.
Where the rattlesnakes hiss and the wind blows free
In a shallow grave, no one to grieve.
beneath the western sky on the lone prairie.

O bury me not on the lone prairie.
These words soft and painfully
From the pallid lips of the youth who lay
On his dying bed at the break of day.
On his dying bed at the break of day.