When I was a growing boy   A-rocking on my daddy's knee   Daddy took an old guitar and sang   Bury me on the lone prairie   Uncle Bob sat at the piano   My girl cousins sang harmony   Those were the good old family times   That left a big mark on me      Bury me out on the prairie   Where the buffalo used to roam   Where the Canada geese once filled the sky   And then I won't be far from home   Bury me out on the prairie   Where the buffalo used to roam   You won't have to shed a tear for me   'Cause then I won't be far from home      Walking down the trans-Canada highway   I was talking to a firefly   Trying to make my way to Nashville, Tennessee   When another car passed me by      Some day I'm gonna make big money   And buy myself a big old car   Make my way on down to that promised land   And then I'm gonna really go far      Bury me out on the prairie   Where the buffalo used to roam   Where the Canada geese once filled the sky   And then I won't be far from home   Just bury me out on the prairie   Where the buffalo used to roam   You won't have to shed a tear for me   'Cause then I won't be far from home