Chords for Bruce Molsky, 2008 Clifftop Master's Showcase

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_ [Bm] Oh, [N] very not on the lone prairie, _ these words came low and _ mournfully _ from the [Am] coal pits.
_ _ _ [F] _ [N] Lay he on his dying bed at the close of day.
_ He wasted time till upon his brow, and the shattered clouds were [G] gathering now.
He thought of his _ home [Dm] and his friends [N] tonight.
Oh, the cowboys gathered to see him [Dm] die.
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_ _ _ [D] I can't say [Fm] what this is, it's a well-known word [Gm] of the free wild land [F] and the song of birds.
He thought of his home in [Dm] the [F] control _ _ [D] of the songs he learned [C] in his [D] childhood.
I _ _ [F] _ often [C] thought of him late when I died, [Gm] in the old churchyard [C] beneath the green _ hillside.
[F] By the side of my mother, left by great [Am] D.
[D] Oh, very not on [Am] the lone [Gm] prairie.
_ [D] Oh, very not [C] on the lone prairie, where [Gm] the Waukio [C] stay out over [F] me.
Where the old _ home fell with low [C] tree.
[Dm] Oh, very not on the lone prairie. _ _
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I'll go on to be late where [C] Mother's prayer, _ [Dm] and sisters' [F] fears can't keep the Lord.
Where our friends can [C] come and weep over me.
_ [Gm] Oh, very not [Am] on the lone [Gm] prairie. _
[C] Where [Gm] the bee drop [C] falls and the butterfly _ rests.
Where [Bb] the waterfowl [C] [F] salute in the berry dress.
Where the buffalo _ roam and with low tree.
[C] [Gm] Oh, [Dm]
very not on the lone _ prairie.
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_ [Dm] Oh, very [C] not in [F] his forest fell there, _ and he did [C] not his dying prayer.
[F] In our old dream, just [Dm] six, five feet.
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[Gm] Oh, very not on the [Am] [Gm] lone prairie.
_ _ [C] [Dm] Where the bee drop [C] falls and [F] the butterfly [C] rests.
[D] Where the waterfowl [F] salute in the berry dress.
Where the buffalo _ roam and with low [C] tree.
_ [Gm] Oh, very not _ [C] on the