Long Crockett Poems

In the 1600's, Europeans lived on the eastern shore
Their numbers grew, they wanted more.
Iroquios, Sauk, Ottawa, and Mohawk were tribes they met
Too many and more, paid our forefathers' debt.
Men moved west thru the Cumberland gap
Daniel...

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There are people we've selected
    who think they were elected
        to flout and mock us with their sordid lies.
In hopes we might surrender 
 ...

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I am but a spirit now, some say ghost,
While others claim I do not exist.
But exist I do from human remains
That carried the Earthly name of Billy.
The spirit that I am was released on
March 6th,...

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Here's another story about Granny
I think she's probably done it all
This was way back during prohibition
When they outlawed alcohol

See, my granny was a moonshiner
This is about her very first still
She had to make sure no...

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Open everyday, at the crack of dawn,
Servin’ eggs and bacon, til there gone,
Pots of coffee, with lots of cream,
Dealin’ with the “help”, makes ya wanna scream.
Lo - cal, Lo- cal Diner, Best lil’ place in...

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We rode into Nacogdoches, with our pistols and our Bowie knives,
Volunteers for Texas—we came to risk our lives.
Some of us had families, and others, just the memory,
And some of us they didn’t hardly miss in...

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I had dreams of yesterday
I woke up with a smile
My dreams took me back 
And it was better for a while.

Jeff was calling Lassie
We had moonbeams in a jar
Perry Como was teaching us
To catch a...

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In the winter of eighteen thirty-six the historic siege began.
The Mexicans went three thousand strong with Santa Anna in command.
The Texians defending the mission numbered one hundred eighty-two
lead by Travis, Bowie, and Crockett, they vowed...

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Evil is what those devils will not conceal.
At Goliad, we tasted their bayonet steel.
The walls at the Alamo have been painted red.
Davy Crockett and some others have fallen dead.
Many civilians are fleeing to escape
to the...

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Narration:

Grandpa came to Dakota Land
In 1883,
Of sturdy Pennsylvania stock,
A mighty man was he.

He was no Davy Crockett,
Nor Bat Masterson,
But he did his very best,
In everything he done.

He worked his little homestead,
Not regretting for a minute,
That...

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What I’d give to wake in the morning and hear those church bells ring
To turn on my old black and white and hear Gene Autry sing
Turn back the time to simpler days with Roy and...

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Oh - I'll press 1 for English but I cringe every time
They ought to be speaking good English like mine
Old Davy Crockett fought the Mexican rabble 
So we wouldn't have to put up with that...

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Thrum. Thrum. Thrum.
Out for a morning run.

I pass the open market
and see old man Crockett,
his cheeks work-worn scarlet.

Thrum. Thrum. Thrum.
Out for a morning run.

Max the cat, sits, blinking
at his world through twinkling
light. What is he...

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The Texans weren't supposed to be
 Holding the old mission.
Sam Houston sent Jim Bowie there.
 Said he had a vision.

Bowie wanted to save the fort.
 So did Colonel Travis.
They say when Santa Anna came
 Carnage...

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Bugs Bunny.  oh, wait! He's not Disney.
He's Hanna-Barbera (if I remember correctly)
Sooo.. maybe Snow White or Grumpy or Sleepy
And are we restricted to characters of movies?

For I 'member Davy Crockett
King of the Wild Frontier
I...

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