"Don't Bury Me Here"

INSTR. C Am C G Am G C

              C                    Am
  Oh, bury me not in this deserted land
                C                          G
  It sounded so frail from this pale young man
                                                  Am
  Who in the cold, cold north was waiting for his death
             G                       C
  And to us aboard he uttered his distress

              C                Am
  No sun will ever shine on my grave 
                 C                      G
  if it's on the bottom of a coal black wave
                           Am
  No, bury me in Christian earth, 
                  G                 C
  next to mum and dad in my town of birth

             C                      Am
  It matters not, I have heard them say, 
                     C                G
  where they put you down when we go away
                                  Am
  But take all I own And share my pay
                G            C
  But please do hear my last prayer

              C                       Am
  Bury me not here became the last he said
                  C                   G
  But we couldn't do as the boy asked to
                                 Am
  In a simple grave Only made of stones
            G                     C
  In frozen earth we dug down his bones

  INSTR. C Am C G Am G C

                 C                   Am
  I can never forget this fine young man
                       C                          G
  I do the sign of the cross each time I see that land, 
                                Am
  where we buried the boy in 1903
                 G                   C
  At last it was me who told the family

  Don't bury me here