Ballad Of The Alamo chords by The Easy Riders
Verse 1
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In the southern part of Texas,
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near the town of San Antonio,
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stands a fortress all in ruins
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that the weeds have overgrown.
You may look in vain for crosses
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an d you'll never see a one,
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but sometime between the setting
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and the rising of the sun,
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you can hear a ghostly bugle
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as the men go marching by.
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You can hear them
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as they answer to that poll call
In the sky, in the sky
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Colonel Travis, Davy Crockett,
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and the hundred an d eighty -four
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Captain Dickinson, Jim Bowie,
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President accounted for
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Back in 1836, Houston said to Travis
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Get some volunteers
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and go fortify the Alamo
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Well, the men came from Texas,
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from old Tennessee,
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They joined up with Travis
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to fight for the right to be free.
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Injun scouts with squirrel guns,
men with puzzle loaders,
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Stood together heel and toe
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to defend the Alamo.
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With banners a -dancin'
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by dawn's golden light,
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Santa Anna came prancing on a horse
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that was black as the night
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Santa not the soon to
tell Travis to surrender
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Travis answered with a shell
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an d a rousing rebel yell
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Santa Anna turned scarlet,
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big whale he roared
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I'll give them no quarter,
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each man will be bowed to the sword
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Twice he charged and couldn't recall
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on the fatal third time.
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Santa Anna breached the wall
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and he killed them one and all.
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Now the bugles are si lent,
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there's rust on each sword.
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This small band of soldiers,
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I eschew in the arms of the Lord.
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In the southern part of Texas
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near the town of San Antone,
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like a statue on his pinthole
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rides a cow boy all alone, all alone.
And he sees a cattle grazing
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where a century before
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Santa Anna's guns were blazing
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and the cannons used to roar.
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Then his eyes turn sort of misty,
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his heart begins to glow,
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and he takes his hat off
slowly
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to the men of Alamo,
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to the thirteen days of glory
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at the siege of Alamo.
Aaaaaaaah
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Ballad Of The Alamo
The Easy Riders
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