IN A NARROW GRAVE (song cycle, in progress)

In a Narrow Grave (in progress, premiere fall 2018)

for baritone voice, violin, mandolin, banjo, guitar, steel guitar, and double bass

"O bury me not," and his voice failed there,

But we took no heed of his dying prayer;

In a narrow grave just six by three

We buried him there on the lone prairie.

- Anonymous, "The Dying Cowboy"