"Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie", also known as "The Cowboy's Lament", "The Dying Cowboy" and "Oh, Bury Me Not" is a cowboy folk song. Based on a sailor's song, The ballad is an adaptation of a sea song called "The Sailor's Grave" or "The Ocean-Burial", which began "O bury me not in the deep, deep sea". "The Ocean Burial" was written by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, published in 1839, and put to music by George N. Allen. A version of the song was published in John Lomax's Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (1910) and John and Alan Lomax's Best Loved American Folk Songs (1947), and Carl Sandburg's American Songbag (1927). It has been recorded by Cisco Houston, Johnny Cash, Burl Ives, Tex Ritter, Roy Rogers and many others.