Key: A major
Verse 1
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In the southern part of Texas,
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that the weeks have overgrown
You may look in vain for crosses,
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But sometimes 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 as they an swer
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to that roll call in the sky
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It was back in 1836,
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get some volunteers and go,
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Fought it by the Isle of Hope
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All the men came from Texas
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And they joined up with Travis
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Just to fight for the right to be free
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Curtis Travis, David Crockett
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An d a hundred and eighty more
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Captain Dickinson, Jim Bowen
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t of four 185,
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hold him back 5 ,000
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5 days, 6 days, 8 days, 10
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Drive his hell in hell again
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Then he sent for replacements
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For his wounded enemy
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But the troops that were coming
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Never came, never came, never came
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Do you recall, on that fatal third time
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An d he killed them all
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Now the bugles are si lent
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And there's rust on each soul
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And this small band of soldiers
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of the Lord
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In the southern part of Texas,
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Like a statue on his pinto,
And he sees a cattle grazing,
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Santa and his guns a -blazin'
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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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and his heart begins to glow
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And he takes his hat off slowly
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to the men that found them all
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To the thirteen days of glory
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at the siege of El Amor
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