O' Bury Me Not On The lone Prairie - Jules Allen

Jules Verne Allen was one of a handful of authentic and documented cowboy singers and writers -- along with Carl T. Sprague -- who lived the life that his songs dealt with. He also learned those songs before radio and records carried them to the world, when they were still part of an oral tradition. A cowboy from the age of ten, and a participant in cattle drives until the end of the first decade of the new century, Allen began singing as an amateur for the pleasure of his fellow cowboys.

After a stint in law enforcement, including a possible period as a Texas Ranger, and service in the army during World War I, he began working as a professional singer in the 1920s and was appearing on radio in Dallas, San Antonio, and Los Angeles by the end of the decade, sometimes under various pseudonyms, including Longhorn Luke. Allen began cutting music for Victor starting in 1928, and cut a total of a dozen sides for the company that year and the next. He cut what were among the earliest known versions of "The Cowboy's Dream," "Home on the Range," and "Days of Forty-Nine." His recording of "The Dying Cowboy," more familiar as "Oh Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie," is one of the more notable authentic oral tradition-derived versions of a song dating, in that form, at least since the 1830s.

Allen was also a composer and writer in his own right, and published Cowboy Lore, a collection of three dozen songs accompanied by details about cowboy life, in 1933 -- it has been reprinted several times, most recently in 1971, some 26 years after his death.

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[yrtuag]

Jud charter a bus and we will all go.

[fatjud1]

@yrtuag lol when i win the lottery i'll pick you up!!

[sirchristian12]

I come from the west, Arizona. I wish I could live in the old western times. A time I wish we were still in. A lot of good things in that time, and some bad things. Heck it's better than today!

[fatjud1]

@sirchristian12 It was a heck of a lot better, i would have loved to live back then even though it was nothing like what you see in the western movies.

[sirchristian12]

@fatjud1 haha right on man! Red Dead Redemption brought me here. I would love riding in the wind with my horse and hat, feeling the breeze of the fresh air the quietness, instead of hearing cars and sirens and traffic.

[fatjud1]

@sirchristian12 Well saddle up pard, we always have our dreams :)

[fatjud1]

@maraminnow Glad you enjoyed it, i am glad to know there are others who enjoy western music as much as i do. Big YOUR WELCOME and HOWDY from the hills of NC lol.

[maraminnow]

This must have been one of Aaron Copland's influences in composing "Billy the Kid." I never had heard this melody outside of that work - now it is clear.

Thanks for posting these wonderful songs. I too had never heard of this person. I have always liked real cowboy music and got introduced to this song by a Cisco Houston album. I am a big fan of Cisco and dislike comparisons but I really appreciate this version! Big thanks and howdy from Houston.

[Linda4734]

Absolutely Wonderful !!!!!

Dan

[fatjud1]

@darkvampireknight666 no i am very sorry i don't