Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie: Difference between revisions

== [[Music]] ==

* The [[Trope Namer]] is [[wikipedia:Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie|a famous cowboy folk song]], with a dying cowboy making this plea. But...

We buried him there, on the lone prairie }}

* [[The Eraserheads]], with their song ''Poorman's Grave''

And the gates are shining }}

* [[Flogging Molly]] came up with a way around this in "Cruel Mistress":

In the belly of a squid }}

* [[The Fugs]], with ''Bury Me in an Apple Orchard''

That I may touch your lips again. }}

* "Where The Rose Is Sown" by Big Country.

Lay me where the rose is sown }}

* The plot of the video to "Kingdom of Rust" by Doves is a man driving to Blackpool to scatter his father's ashes on the beach.

* Averted, played straight and just generally messed with in [[Violent Femmes]]' "''I Hear The Rain''".

* "If I Die Young," by The Band Perry:

Send me away with the words of a love song }}

** [[Todd in the Shadows]] had a lot of fun trying to figure out the logistics of this funeral arrangement.

* The entirety of the Rolf Harris song "Tie me kangaroo down, sport" is the stockman's dying wishes, and concludes with the immortal lines:

So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde, '''and that's it hanging on the shed'''. }}

** In The Beatles BBC sessions, they end it:

So we tanned his hide when he died, boys, '''and now Ringo's got it on his drums!''' }}