POEMS AND SONGS
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But there is one song that towers over all of the other Crockett anthems -- the most famous song about Davy of all. It became a runaway hit and could be heard everywhere across the United States for years . . . . and it wasn't "The Ballad of Davy Crockett."
"Pompey Smash" can be traced back to the mid-1830's, when David was still alive and his legend was just getting national exposure (a reference to Halley's Comet places it around the time of 1834). It was printed everywhere in the mid 19th Century, and experienced a rebirth in the 1920's.
Today it is just known as "Davy Crockett," and is a part of many folk collections and songbooks. It was sort of a sequel to a minstrel song called "Zip Coon," which appears to have originated around 1833. That song goes:
That
tarnal critter Crockett, he never say his prayers,
He kill all de wild Cats,
de Coons and de bears,
And den he go to Washington to make de laws,
And
dere he find de Congress men sucking deir paws.
"Zip Coon" celebrates Crockett as a political reformist. But "Pompey Smash" dealt more with the legendary Screamer -- the wild man. It concerns a fight between Crockett and Pompey, a minstrel character who was the black version of Crockett. It's even speculated that Crockett (or his ghost writer) might have borrowed the story of grinning the bark off a tree from the song in his Sketches and Eccentricities book. Here are a few stanzas:
POMPEY
SMASH
The
Everlastin and Unkonkerable Skreamer
Based
on texts from Lloyd's Ethiopian Song Book (London, 1847) and The Negro
Singers Own Book, Philadelphia, 1846
Now
I'll tell you 'bout a fight I had wid Davy Crockett
Dat haff hoss, haff kune,
an haff sky rocket,
I met him one day as I go out a gunnin,
I ax him whar
he guine, an he say he guine a kunein,
Den I ax him whar he gun, and he say
he got nun,
Den I say, Davy, how you guine to hunt widout one.
Den
says he, Pompey Smash, just come along ob Davy
An I'll dam soon show you how
to grin a koon crazy
Well, I follow on arter, till Davy seed a squirrel,
Settin
on a pine log, eatin sheep sorrel,
Den he stop rite still, and he gin for
me to feel,
Says he, Pompey Smash, let me brace agin your heel.
I
stuck out my heel, an I brace up de sinner,
An den Davy gun to grin hard for
his dinner,
But de critter didn't move -- nor didn't seem to mine him,
But
seem to keep a eatin, and neber look behine him.
At lass, Davy sed, he ralely
must be dead,
For I seed de bark fly all 'bout de kritter's head.
Den
we boph started up, de truth to diskiver,
An may de debil roast ole Pompei
Smash's liber,
If it wa'nt a great not, 'bout as big as a punkin,
Saz I,
kurnel Davy, does you call dis skunkin.
Heah! Heah! Heah!!!
Den sez he,
you black kaff, now I tell you doan laff,
If you do I'll pin your ears back,
an bite you in haff.
I throde down my gun, an I drop my amynishin,
Sez I, kurnel Davy, I'll cool
you ambishun,
He back both his years, an puff like a steamer,
Sez he, Pompey
Smash, I'm a Tennessee skreemer,
Den we boph lock horn, an I tink my breph
gone,
I was neber hug so close, since de day I was born.
We
fought haff a day, an den we greed to stop it,
For I was badly whipt, an so
was Davy Crockett,
When we look for our heds, gosh, we found 'em boph missen,
For he'd bit off mine, an' I'd swallow'd hissen.
Den boph did agree for
to leff de oder be,
For I was rather hard for him, an so was he for me.
Later in the song, Pompey escapes from his master, diving into a river and riding an alligator to New Orleans, in a story which was borrowed from a Crockett Almanac (in fact, Almanac publishers Turner & Fisher also published a version of the song in The Negro Singer's Own Book (1948).
Minstrel
shows emerged from preindustrial European traditions of masking and carnival.
But in the US they began in the 1830s, with working class white men dressing up
as plantation slaves. These men imitated black musical and dance forms, combining
savage parody of black Americans with genuine fondness for African American cultural
forms.
By the 1840s, the minstrel show had become one of
the central events in the culture of the Democratic party. White performers would
blacken their faces with burnt cork or greasepaint, dress in outlandish costumes,
and then perform songs and skits that mocked African Americans. Some of the most
famous songs in American history--Dixie, Camptown Races, Oh Sussanah,
My Old Kentucky Home--began as minstrel songs.
Crockett
himself describes seeing a "Jim Crow" minstrel show in Philadelphia,
and wrote: "The fiddling was pretty good. I do not think, however, from all
I saw that the people enjoyed themselves better than we do at a country frolic,
where we dance til daylight, and pay off the score by giving one in our turn."
By
the Civil War, the minstrel show had become world famous and respectable. Late
in his life, Mark Twain fondly (and unfortunately) remembered it as the "old
time nigger show." Before the Civil War, black men could not appear in minstrel
shows--custom prohibited it. But there are several instances of black men putting
on minstrel makeup and appearing as white men imitating black men. Later, in the
twentieth century, several of the most famous minstrels were actually balck me
who wore makeup--the most famous being Bert Williams, who performed in blackface
into the 1920s. The first talkng picture, "The Jazz Singer," (1927)
was a blackface film. Judy Garland, the Marx Brothers and Bing Crosby did movies
with blackface sequences.
But in the Twentieth Century, minstrel shows started dying out -- but "Pompey Smash" survived: The more objectionable stereotypes were removed over time, and it was sung in every part of the country for 150 years -- usually under the title "Davy Crockett" -- making it by far the most performed Crockett song ever (sorry, Walt). A Twentieth Century version, called "Davy Crockett," is performed in the mid-sixties by Sarah Ogan Gunning, from Randolph, Ozark Folksongs.
DAVY
CROCKETT
In Sarah
Ogan Gunning: Girl of Constant Sorrow. Folk-Legacy
Records, 1965.
Now,
I'll tell you what I think of old Davy Crockett,
He's half horse, half coon,
and half sky-rocket.
I met him one day a goin' out a-coonin'.
I ask him
where he's goin' an' he said he's goin' huntin'.
Oh I ask him where's his
gun, an' he said he had none.
Says I, Colonel Davy, how you goin' get 'em
down?
Says
he, Pompey Smash, just follow your Uncle Davy,
An' he'll soon show you how
to grin a coon crazy.
We hadn't gone far till Davy thought he seen a squirrel
A-settin' on a pine-knot eatin' sheep sorrel.
Then I begin to laugh an'
he began to grin,
Says he, Pompey Smash, let me brace against your heel!
So
I stuffed out my heel an' I braced up the sinner,
An' Davy he begin to grin
pretty hard for his dinner,
But the critter didn't move, an' he didn't seem
to mind it,
But just kept a-eatin', an' didn't look behind it.
Now don't
laugh, you big black calf,
For if you do, I'll bite you in half!
We
fought half a day an' then agreed to stop it,
For I was badly whipped an'
so was Davy Crockett,
When we looked for our heads, Gosh, we found 'em both
a-missin',
For he bit off my head an' I'd swallowed his'n!
If
you want to hear "Davy Crockett," it appears in a number of folk songs
and ballads found online at Mudcat Cafe: A Magazine Devoted to Blues and Folk
Music (put "Crockett" in search window for different versions with
audio and discussion links).
Also recorded in the Sixties
was a ballad by Jane Bowers about the Alamo, which amazingly remembers nothing
right, gets every fact wrong! Here it is:
THE
ALAMO
by
Jane Bowers
A
hundred and eighty were challenged by Travis to die
By a line that he drew
with his sword as the battle drew nigh
A man that crossed over the line was
for glory
And he that was left better fly
And over the line crossed 179
Hey
Up Santa Anna, they're killing your soldiers below
So the rest of Texas will
know
And remember the Alamo
Jim
Bowie lay dying, his blood and his powder were dry
But his knife at the ready
to take him a few in reply
Young Davy Crocket lay laughing and dying
The
blood and the sweat in his eyes
For Texas and freedom no man was more willing
to die.
Hey
Up Santa Anna, they're killing your soldiers below
So the rest of Texas will
know
And remember the Alamo
A
courier came to a battle once bloody and loud
And found only skin and bones
where he once left a crowd
Fear not little darling of dying
If this world
be sovereign and free
For we'll fight to the last for as long as liberty be.
Hey
Up Santa Anna, they're killing your soldiers below
So the rest of Texas will
know
And remember the Alamo!
OTHER SONGS:
"Zip
Coon" appeared in the Free and Easy Song Book, a collection of stage
songs first distributed in the 1830s. The earliest surviving copy is from 1836,
the year of David's death, with 304 pages of songs and lyrics. Like the Almanacs,
it was extremely popular, falsely credited David with a lot of the content, and
reprinted many times throughout the 1830s and 1840s. A companion book, Colonel
Crockett's Free and Easy Recitation Book, was just as popular -- the 1939
edition even admitting, "Since the appearance of the first edition of this
very popular Manual for the Vocalist, the remarkable individual whose name introduced
it to the notice of the public has paid the debt of nature. . . . It may not be
improper to mention that the call for this little work has rather increased than
fallen off, since the death of Colonel Crockett."
Many
of the songs in those books were attributed to David, who reportedly was very
musical and a pretty decent fiddle player -- but only one song has held up at
all to any scrutiny, although even that is somewhat dubious: "Farewell to
the Mountains," was supposedly penned by David, and edited by "Pegleg"
Longfellow. It was reportedly quoted from the Republican Banner newspaper
in Nashville shortly after Crockett's death, but the particular newspaper has
never been found. It was then reprinted by Austin P. Foster in Tennessee Historical
Magazine, October, 1925. Lines 1-2 of verse 1, lines 3-4, 7-8 of verse 2 (at
left), have been set to music; and were heard in Disney's "Davy Crockett,
King of the Wild Frontier."
FAREWELL TO THE MOUNTAINS By David Crockett Farewell
to the mountains whose mazes to me The
home I forsake where my offspring arose: Farewell
to my country! --I fought for thee well,
Published in Story of the Wild West and Camp-Fire Chats, by Buffalo Bill (Hon. W.F. Cody): A Full and Complete History of the Renowned Pioneer Quartette, Boone, Crockett, Carson and Cody, by William F. Cody. Philadelphia: Historical Publishing Company, 1888. |
But the most memorable song from that production created a firestorm. It was played everywhere -- constantly -- for an entire year, and even today any youngster can hum it immediately if asked. In fact, the success of the song and the film series upon which it was written for transformed Crockett from a 19th Century backwoodsman and politician into a 1950's icon. In fact today most people think of the 1950's when you bring up the name of Davy Crockett -- not the Alamo or the Homestead Act. The song was written to fill airtime when the folks at Disney realized their "Davy Crockett: Indian Fighter" TV show was running short. It was called, "The Ballad of Davy Crockett." Or, as it's written on the sheet music:
THE
BALLAD OF DAVY CROCKETT: HIS EARLY LIFE, HUNTING ADVENTURES, SERVICES UNDER GENERAL
JACKSON IN THE CREEK WAR, ELECTIONEERING SPEECHES, CAREER IN CONGRESS, TRIUMPHAL
TOUR IN THE NORTHERN STATES, AND SERVICES IN THE TEXAN WAR
by
Tom Blackburn; Music by George Bruns. Copyright
1954 Wonderland Music Co., Inc.
Born
on a mountain top in Tennessee,
Greenest state in the land of the free,
Raised
in the woods so he knew ev'ry tree,
Kilt him a b'ar when he was only three.
Davy,
Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier!
In
eighteen thirteen, the Creeks uprose,
Addin' redskin arrows to the country's
woes.
Now, Injun fightin' is somethin' he knows,
So he shoulders his rifle
an' off he goes.
Davy, Davy Crockett, the man who don't know fear!
Off
through the woods he's a marchin' along,
Makin' up yarns an' a-singin' a song,
Itchin'
fer fightin' an' rightin' a wrong
He's ringy as a b'ar an' twict as strong.
Davy,
Davy Crockett, the buckskin buccaneer!
Andy
Jackson is our gen'ral's name.
His reg'lar soldiers we'll put to shame.
Them
redskin varmints us Volunteers'll tame,
'Cause we got the guns with the sure-fire
aim.
Davy, Davy Crockett, the champion of us all!
Headed
back to war from the ol' home place,
But Red Stick was leadin' a merry chase,
Fightin'
an' burnin' at a devil's pace,
South to the swamps on the Florida Trace.
Davy,
Davy Crockett, trackin' the redskins down!
Fought
single-handed through the Injun War
Till the Creeks was whipped an' peace was
in store,
An' while he was handlin' this risky chore,
Made hisself a legend
forevermore.
Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier!
He
give his word an' he give his hand
That his Injun friends could keep their
land,
An' the rest of his life he took the stand
That justice was due every
redskin band.
Davy, Davy Crockett, holdin' his promise dear!
Home
fer the winter with his family,
Happy as squirrels in the ol' gum tree,
Bein'
the father he wanted to be,
Close to his boys as the pod an' the pea.
Davy,
Davy Crockett, holdin' his young'uns dear!
But
the ice went out an' the warm winds came,
An' the meltin' snow showed tracks
of game,
An' the flowers of spring filled the woods with flame,
An' all
of a sudden life got too tame.
Davy, Davy Crockett, headin' on west again!
Off
through the woods we're ridin' along,
Makin' up yarns an' singin' a song.
He's
ringy as a b'ar an' twict as strong,
An' knows he's right 'cause he ain' often
wrong.
Davy, Davy Crockett, the man who don't know fear!
Lookin'
fer a place where the air smells clean,
Where the trees is tall an' the grass
is green,
Where the fish is fat in an untouched stream,
An' the teemin'
woods is a hunter's dream.
Davy, Davy Crockett, lookin' fer Paradise!
Now
he's lost his love an' his grief was gall.
In his heart he wanted to leave
it all
An' lose himself in the forests tall,
But he answered instead his
country's call.
Davy, Davy Crockett, beginnin' his campaign!
Needin'
his help, they didn't vote blind.
They put in Davy 'cause he was their kind,
Sent
up to Nashville the best they could find,
A fightin' spirit an' a thinkin'
mind.
Davy, Davy Crockett, choice of the whole frontier!
The
votes were counted an' he won hands down,
So they sent him off to Washin'ton
town,
With his best dress-suit still his buckskins brown,
A livin' legend
of growin' renown.
Davy, Davy Crockett, the Canebrake Congressman!
He
went off to Congress an' served a spell,
Fixin' up the gover'ment an' laws
as well,
Took over Washin'ton so we heered tell,
An' patched up the crack
in the Liberty Bell.
Davy, Davy Crockett, seein' his duty clear!
Him
an' his jokes traveled all through the land,
An' his speeches made him friends
to beat the band.
His politickin' was their favorite brand,
An' everyone
wanted to shake his hand.
Davy, Davy Crockett, helpin' his legend grow!
He
knew when he spoke he sounded the knell
Of his hopes for White House an' fame
as well,
But he spoke out strong so hist'ry books tell,
An' patched up the
crack in the Liberty Bell.
Davy, Davy Crockett, seein' his duty clear!
When
he come home his politickin' done,
The western march had just begun,
So
he packed his gear an' his trusty gun,
An' lit out grinnin' to follow the sun.
Davy,
Davy Crockett, leadin' the pioneer!
He
heard of Houston an' Austin so
To the Texas plains he jest had to go,
Where
freedom was fightin' another foe
An' they needed him at the Alamo.
Davy,
Davy Crockett, the man who don't know fear!
His
land is biggest an' his land is best,
From grassy plains to the mountain crest.
He's
ahead of us all meetin' the test,
Followin' his legend into the West.
Davy,
Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier!
The song sold 7,000,000 units in six months, making it the "fastest selling entity in the history of the disc industry." Many other Crockett songs followed -- "The Davy Crockett Blues," "The Davy Crockett Mambo," Stepin Fetchit's "The Davy Crockett Boogie." Blackburn and Bruns wrote another song called "Old Betsy," which Burl Ives recorded, and Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen sang "Davy Crockett's Motto: Be Sure You're Right (Then Go Ahead)."A Decca record called "When Davy Crockett Met San Antonio Rose" was recorded using Crockett's own fiddle in 1955. But none of them caught fire like the original.
Russian-born Dimitri Tiomkin created the soundtrack music for John Wayne's version of "The Alamo" in 1960. The composer wrote a number of songs for the film (e.g. "The Green Leaves of Summer") which in part emphasise the homesickness and the heroism of the defenders. Tiomkin received two Oscar nominations for his work: Score Of A Dramatic Or Comedy Picture, and Original Song, for "The Green Leaves Of Summer."
THE GREEN LEAVES OF SUMMER
(Theme from "The Alamo")
Words
& Music by Dimitri Tiomkin & Paul Webster
Recorded by Brothers Four,
1960; from the movie "The Alamo"
A
time to be plantin', a time to be sowin',
The green leaves of summer are callin'
me home.
'Twas so good to be young then, in the season of plenty,
When the
cat fish were jumpin' as high as the sky.
A
time just for plantin', a time just for plowin',
A time to be courtin' a girl
of your own.
'Twas so good to be young then, to be close to the earth;
Now
the green leaves of summer are call - in' me home.
A
time to be reapin', a time to be sowin',
The green leaves of summer are callin'
me home
It was good to be young then, with the sweet smell of apples,
And
the owl in the pine tree a-winkin' his eye.
A
time just for plantin', a time just for plowin',
A time just for livin', a
place for to die.
'Twas so good to be young then, to be close to the earth;
Now
the green leaves of summer are call - in' me home.
Coda:
'Twas
so good to be young then, to be close to the earth;
Now the green leaves of
summer are call - in' me home.
The soundtrack is most memorable for the martial music depicting the relentless advance of the Mexican army. When asked why a Russian composer should be able to so easily depict the Wild West, Tiomkin would joke that there was little difference between the Steppes and the Prairies. Another single was released with a vocal by Marty Robbins, but that version wasn't used in the film:
THE
BALLAD OF THE ALAMO
By
Dimitri Tiomkin and P. F. Webster; Recorded by Marty Robbins
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.
The
goal of 2004's "The Alamo" was to humanize the real story behind the
myth. Director John Lee Hancock brought composer Carter Burwell in to write a
score in tune with his humanistic approach to the subject matter. Burwell keeps
the music initially low-key in contrast to the epic sweep of the picture. He emphasizes
the fiddles and the string section to drive the melody. While the 1960 Tiomkin
score is quite melodic in nature, the Burwell score is a far more accurate representation
of the type of music played during the 1830's, using ethnic flutes, fiddles, bugles,
fifes, mandolin, guitarron, folk viola, and an orchestra of 16 percussion players.
The
most important instrument in the film was a handmade,
150-year-old American violin. Veteran musician Craig Eastman, who played Crockett's
fiddle parts in the film, was “instrumental” in providing the fiddle
for a key emotional moment. Hearing a haunting melody called "DeGuello"
(from the Spanish meaning "slit throat") played by Santa Anna’s
marching band to spook the defenders of the Alamo, Crockett, a noted fiddler,
accompanies the song for his own troops.
Eastman, whose crew
badge read "Fiddle Maestro," brought several vintage violins from his
personal collection for director Hancock to review before choosing the one actor
Thornton would mimic playing on-camera. "We were trying for historical accuracy,
finding one that would be similar to the type that he would have played. This
one was handmade in the southeastern United States. John Lee liked the sound of
it, as well as its dark, rustic look."
"There are
two scenes in the movie where Crockett plays the fiddle," the musician notes.
"There’s that moment where he plays along with the attacking Mexican
army’s drum-and-bugle corps on the last night before the siege. I worked
with Carter Burwell on that part of the score. In researching this, we found out
that Davy Crockett’s parents were Irish. So, we figured that his playing
style would probably draw on Irish fiddling traditions. So we incorporated some
of that into the scene." (Insider tip: After Crockett plays, Hancock cuts
to a defender with tears in his eyes -- it's composer Carter Burwell!)
"You
would have to play a violin for ten years before you’d be able to play something
like DeGuello," Eastman remarks. "It's technically difficult to play.
Because Billy is a musician, a good drummer, he really wanted to learn how to
play the actual note-for-note fingering of it to have it look right. Getting the
notes is pretty challenging, but getting the notes in tune is really, really hard."
As
for the finished performance, Hancock says in the liner notes of the soundtrack
CD, "Carter had reduced every emotion in the film, everything we'd been trying
to say, into a lamentation that was beautiful, bittersweet and incredibly moving."
Just
don't expect kids to hum it everywhere and buy 7,000,000 units.
HEAR FOR YOURSELF:
Dean Shostak: Davy Crockett's Fiddle: This recording features the fiddle that belonged to Davy Crockett. All the instruments and music on this CD are from the time of Davy Crockett (1786-1836)
1.
Perry's Victory
2.
Yankee Doodle
3. Amazing Grace
4.
Speed The Plow
5. Hunters of Kentucky
6. Shenandoah
7. Turkey in the
Straw
8. Haste to the Wedding
9. German Waltz
10. The President's
March
11. Home Sweet Home
12. Durang's Hornpipe/ College Hornpipe
13.
Jefferson and Liberty
14. Soldier's Joy/ Bonaparte's Retreat
15. Duke
of Kent Waltz
16. Cindy
17. The Girl I Left Behind Me/ Leather Breeches
18. Rock of Ages
19. Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
20. Star Spangled
Banner
21. The Legend of Davy Crockett
"Western
Adventures & Others:" by Fess Parker,
Gene Autry & Buddy Ebsen:
1.
Gene Autry at the Rodeo / Cass County Boys
2. Champion (The Horse No Man
Could Ride)
3. Davy Crockett - Indian Fighter
4. Davy Crockett Goes To
Congress
5. Davy Crockett At The Alamo
6. Ballad Of Davy Crockett
7.
I Gave My Love (Riddle Song)
8. Be Sure You're Right (Then Go Ahead)
9.
Old Betsy (Davy Crockett's Rifle)
10. Farewell
11. I'm Lonely My Darlin'
(Green Grow The Lilacs)
12. King Of The River
13. Yaller Yaller Gold
"The Alamo" (1960) by Dmitri Tiomkin:
1.
Overture
2. Main Title/Legend of the Alamo/Sam Houston
3. Dave Crockett
and the Tennesseans
4. Cantina Music
5. Davy Crockett's Speech (Republic
Is One of Those Words...)
6. Love Scene
7. Crockett and the Tennesseans
Enter the Alamo
8. Mexicans Arrive
9. Intermission
10. Entr'acte
11.
Tennessee Babe
12. Here's to the Ladies
13. Raid for Cattle
14. Santa
Anna
15. Crossing the Line
16. Green Leaves of Summer
17. Charge of
Santa Anna/Death of Davy Crockett/The Final Assault
18. Finale
19. Exit
Music
20. Davy Crockett and Flaca (I'm Gonna Tell You Something, Flaca)
21.
Eyes of Texas Are upon You [Alternate Ending]
22. Ballad of the Alamo
23.
Green Leaves of Summer
"The
Alamo" (2004) Carter Burwell:
1.
Flesh and Honor
2. 300 Miles of Snow
3. What We're Defending
4. Bexareno
5.
Zandunga
6. Who Took Their Loved Ones
7. Listen to the Mockingbird Sing
8. Evacuation of Bexar
9. Calm After the Storm
10. Visitation of Saint
Ursula
11. Quiet Mountain
12. They Ain't Bear
13. Bonham's Ride
14.
Sell Our Lives Dearly
15. Night Falls on the Alamo
16. Deguello de Crockett
17. Last Night
18. Battle of the Alamo, Pt. 1
19. Battle of the Alamo,
Pt. 2
20. Battle of the Alamo, Pt. 3
21. Battle of the Alamo, Pt. 4
22.
Battle of the Alamo, Pt. 5
23. Battle of the Alamo, Pt. 6
24. Death of
Crockett
25. Runaway Scrape
26. Blood, or Texas
"Remembers
the Alamo," by Asleep At The Wheel:
1.
Remember the Alamo/Letter from Col. Travis
2. Green Leaves of Summer
3.
Billy in the Low Ground
4. Ballad of the Alamo
5. Deguello
6. Ballad
of Davy Crockett
7. Yellow Rose of Texas
8. New San Antonio Rose
9.
Eighth of January
10. Across the Alley from the Alamo
11. Stout and High
12. Don't Go There
13. Soldier's Joy
The Best of the Kentucky Headhunters: Still Pickin'; Ballad of Davy Crockett
Kurt Weill: Marie Galante/Davy Crockett, a musical play (unfinished):
1. Song of the trees
2. Hillbilly Narrative "Davy and Sahra's Marriage"
3.
The hand is quicker than the eye
4. The death of Josh Hawkins
5. Time is
standing still
"Ring
of Fire:" The Best of Johnny Cash: Remember the Alamo
"Land
of Yahoe:" Various Artists: Davy Crockett (Pompey Smash)/ Hobert Stollard
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