Bonus Poem: Davy Crockett, March 6, and the end of the Battle of the Alamo

For the lectionary poem for March 13, please page down to the previous post!

In Praise of Davy Crockett (August 17, 1786 - March 6, 1836)

When Davy Crockett killed a bar,

How could he know that he'd go far

In politics of Tennessee?

For he'd a legislator be,

In Nashville, then in Washington,

Where, as a Presbyterian

He voted 'gainst Prez Jackson's quest

To move the Indians out west.

The folks back home were not impressed,

And thus, he lost the next contest.

In two more years he won again,

But two years hence, to home was sent.

Disgusted, then, by Tennessee,

He fought to help make Texas free.

One hundred-eighty years ago,

His last loss at the Alamo

Established Davy Crockett's name

Bar none, a hero, worth his fame;

Thus, on this date, March 6, we sing

In praise to our wild frontier king!

Scott L. Barton