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Lyrics for Ballad Of The Alamo by Marty Robbins:
| | | Artist: | Marty Robbins |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Ballad Of The Alamo | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 97 | | | | Lyrics: | In the southern part of Texas
In the town of San Antone
There's a fortress all in ruins
that the weeds have overgrown
You may look in vain for crosses and you'll never see
a-one
But sometimes between the setting and the rising of the sun
You can hear a ghostly
bugle
As the men go marching by
You can hear them as they answer
To that roll call in
the sky.
Colonel Travis, Davy Crockett, and a hundred eighty more
Captain Dickinson,
Jim Bowie
Present and accounted for.
Back in 1836, Houston said to Travis
"Get
some volunteers and go
Fortify the Alamo."
Well the men came from Texas
And from old
Tennessee
And they joined up with Travis
Just to fight for the right to be
free.
Indian scouts with squirrel guns
Men with muzzle-loaders
Stood together,
heel and toe
To defend the Alamo.
"You may ne'er see your loved ones,"
Travis
told them that day
"Those who want to can leave now
Those who fight to the death let 'em
stay."
In the sand he drew a line
With his army sabre
Out of a hundred eighty
five
Not a soldier crossed the line
With his banners a-dancin'
In the dawn's golden
light
Santa Anna came prancing
On a horse that was black as the night.
Sent an
officer to tell
Travis to surrender
Travis answered with a shell
And a rousing rebel
yell
Santa Anna turned scarlet
"Play deguello!" he roared
"I will show them no
quarter
Every one will be put to the sword!"
One hundred and eighty
five
Holding back five thousand
Five days, six days, eight days, ten
Travis held and
held again
Then he sent for replacements
For his wounded and lame
But the troops that
were coming
Never came, never came, never came...
Twice he charged and blew
recall
On the fatal third time
Santa Anna breached the wall
And he killed 'em, one
and all
Now the bugles are silent
And there's rust on each sword
And the small band
of soldiers...
Lie asleep in the arms of the Lord...
In the southern part of
Texas
Near the town of San Antone
Like a statue on his pinto rides a cowboy all
alone
And he sees the cattle grazing where a century before
Santa Anna's guns were blazing
and the cannons used to roar
And his eyes turn sorta misty
And his heart begins to
glow
And he takes his hat off slowly...
To the men of Alamo.
To the
thirteen days of glory
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