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Thread #20039   Message #2412625
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
13-Aug-08 - 01:04 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Subject: RE: Origins: Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Louie Roy, if I understand your post correctly, I have to disagree with you. "I've Got No Use for the Women" takes almost the opposite tack from "Bury Me Not on the Prairie".

In contrast to "Bury me not", "I've Got No Use for the Women says, in part:

Bury me out on the prairie
Where the coyotes can howl o'er my grave
Bury me out on the prairie
But from them my bones please save . . .


The central thought of "I've Got No Use" is not about the undesirability of a prairie burial but about the perfidy of "a gal named Lou" who made him fall in with evil companions, leading to his death.

The song can be found in the DT, HERE

Dave Oesterreich