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Bury Me Naked

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For all its verdant landscaping, the typical cemetery functions less like a bucolic resting ground for the dead than a landfill for the materials that infuse and encase them. Over time, the typical ten-acre swatch of cemetery ground, for example, contains enough coffin wood to construct more than 40 houses, nearly 1,000 tons of casket steel and another twenty thousand tons of vault concrete. Add to that a volume of toxic formalin nearly sufficient to fill a small backyard swimming pool and untold gallons of pesticide and weed killer used to keep the cemetery grounds preternaturally green.

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Bury Me Naked stele / laina corazon c12
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oh bury me on the lone prairie /g c
where the dirt is soft and embraces me /d g
to become the grass along the stream /g c
to feed the deer in love in spring / em am d

give me a shroud, or a box of pine / c g, d g
or bury me naked, it’ll be so fine /d g

mother earth will embrace me then /g c
to decompose, then recompose again /d g
I’ll feed the earth, as she fed us all /g c
may others begin, when I do fall/ em am d

to become the eyes of meadowlark /g c
and vixen’s ears for her mate do hark /d g
and coyote’s throat that sings at night /g c
and (yellow) wings of dancing butterfly/ em am d

give me a shroud, or a box of pine / c g, d g
or bury me naked, it’ll be so fine /d g

need another “to become…” verse
with 4 more lifeforms here

so come along to my new home /g c
and be at ease, as you see me roam /d g
for the dirt has turned me you will see /g c
into bugs and leaves and critters free / em am d

give me a shroud, or a box of pine / c g, d g
or bury me naked, it’ll be so fine /d g

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from XOEarth Radio, released October 13, 2014

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