Dead Men Singing – Remember the Alamo! H. Bedford-Jones turns his massive story-telling talents to the Texas Revolution and the Battle of the Alamo. One hundred years after the Texas Revolution, Henry Bedford-Jones penned this paean to the heroes of Texas Freedom, the defenders of the Alamo.
The stories of Jim Bowie, Ben Milam and Davy Crockett are featured, along with James Fannin, William B. Travis and Sam Houston.
Dead Men Singing – (1936)
The Men Who Fought For Texas A Hundred Years Ago
I. The Buffalo Hunter
II. The Seventh Child
III. The Jailbird
IV. The Rifleman
"We were hunters and politicians,
soldiers, half-breeds and scouts,
Preachers and clerks and gentry,
gamblers and country louts,
Lawyers and ciboleros,
wandering to and fro—
And by God, sir, we fought for Texas
a hundred years ago!"
"Yankees and courtly Spaniards,
Tennessee mountaineers,
Creoles and Dutch and slavers
(gentlemen in arrears)
Shoulder to shoulder gathered,
answering blow with blow—
For by God, sir! We fought in Texas
a hundred years ago!"
"We didn't have much book-learning,
we knew the feel of dirt,
Some of us had fine manners
and some of us lacked a shirt;
We could shoot or swing a broadaxe,
handle a pick or hoe—
And by God, sir! We fought for Texas,
a hundred years ago!"
"We gambled and chawed terbaccer,
we did as we had a mind,
We'd fight for a horn of liquor,
and we left our wives behind;
We scalped and we cussed and ranted,
we could wrassle heel and toe—
And by God, sir! We wrassled for Texas
a hundred years ago!"
