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LibertyEagle
02-17-2012, 02:04 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoEJ-D2bgc0

tfurrh
05-09-2012, 12:21 PM
What a great speech. I had heard that once about a year ago, but I had forgotten how great it is. I read his biography by Buddy Levy about 4 years ago, and he has since become my favorite person in American History.

Check out his wikiquote page. It's full of greatness: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett

Here's a poem he wrote that I recently discovered. To me, it's both inspiring and heartbreaking, much like the man's life.

Farewell to the mountains whose mazes to me
Were more beautiful far than Eden could be
No fruit was forbidden, and nature had spread
Her bountiful board…and her children were fed.
The hills were our garners; our herds wildly grew
And nature was shepherd and husbandman, too.
I felt like a monarch yet thought like a man
As I thanked the Great Giver and worshipped His plan.

The home I forsake where my offspring arose
The grave I forsake where my children repose
The home I redeemed from the savage and wild
The home I have loved as a father his child
The corn that I planted; the fields that I cleared
The flocks that I raised and the cabin I reared
The wife of my bosom, farewell to ye all
In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall

Farewell to my country, I fought for thee well
As the savage rushed forth like the demons from Hell
In peace or in war I have stood by thy side
My country for thee I have lived, would have died.
But I am cast off, my career now is run
And I wander abroad like the Prodigal Son
Where the wild savage roams and the broad prairies spread
The fallen despised will again go ahead.

tfurrh
05-09-2012, 12:48 PM
I once wrote a song about Davy Crockett....I was hesitant to put it up here, but oh well.

What am I doing here among all these smooth talking politicians
'is not' has always been 'ain't'
And I'm so sick and tired of all this rule bending wheeling dealing
I'll do what I can and what I can't

I may be just a Gentleman From the Cane
But the Good Lord gave me half a brain
And you can all go to Hell, I'll go to Texas
Before I go insane. Before I go insane

They call me Nimrod Wildfire;
Lion of the West
I can whip my weight in wildcats
I'm better than the best
I'm just as Texan
As a Texican can be
Though I was born on a mountain top
In Eastern Tennessee

I've dressed up by dressing down buckskin jacket tanned and browned
and a coonskin cap placed upon my head
From Red Stick to San Antone I never did have much to own
But I made sure I was right, then went ahead

I was one of a hundred and eighty-five
For Texas I gladly gave my life
I died for that Lone Star Flag
May it forever fly. May it forever fly

They call me Nimrod Wildfire;
Lion of the West
I can whip my weight in wildcats
I'm better than the best
I'm just as Texan
As a Texican can be
Though I was born on a mountain top
In Eastern Tennessee