Posted on 04/09/2004 2:08:32 PM PDT by missyme
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:04:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
My wife and I saw this movie today and I pointed this fact out to my wife, because in the movie, the Mexicans had been warned and were fully awake and ready for battle. They were still wiped out in 18 minutes. But imagine the angst of the Mexicans seeing the movie if they'd depicted the truth that the Texicans caught them napping and were just as cold blooded and ruthless as they had been dealt at the Alamo and at Goliad. No quarter asked for and none given.
Well, hot damn. Worked once, ought to work again!
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 Dickenson, Jim Bowie present and accounted for.
Back in eighteen thirty-six - 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 that want to can leave now, those that 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 prancin' on a horse that was black as the night ...
Sent an officer to tell Travis to surrender.
Travis answered with a shout and a rousin' rebel yell.
Santa Anna turned scarlet, "Play Deguello!", he roared.
"I will show them no quarter, everyone will be put to the sword!"
One hundred and eighty five holdin' 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 comin' never came, never came, never came ...
Twice he charged them to recall - on the fatal third time,
Santa Anna breached the wall and he killed them 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 grazin' where a century before
Santa Anna's guns were blazin' 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 at the seige of Alamo.
Recorded by Marty Robbins
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