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Johnny Cash

Oh, Bury Me Not (Introduction: A Cowboy's Prayer)

1994 · via Kendrick Lamar

Johnny Cash’s 1994 recording of “Oh, Bury Me Not (Introduction: A Cowboy's Prayer)” is the earliest release on file. Alan Lomax and John A. Lomax are credited as its writers. Kendrick Lamar’s “Freedom” (2016) carries this song’s writers on its credit.

Johnny Cash – Oh, Bury Me Not (Introduction: A Cowboy's Prayer)
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Read the credits on "Freedom" closely and two Lomaxes turn up, and their song leads you to Johnny Cash, who first put "Oh, Bury Me Not" on record in 1994. Play them back to back and listen for the cowboy's prayer sitting under Kendrick.

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Credited writers: Alan Lomax and John A. Lomax.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1994.

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Kendrick Lamar’s “Freedom” (2016) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.

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Kendrick Lamar's "Freedom" carries the writing credit of "Oh, Bury Me Not (Introduction: A Cowboy's Prayer)." Who made the first recording of that earlier song?Johnny Cash
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