Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier Page #7

- Not yet. He'd have to wait for darkness.

[expIosion]

- There she is.

- Gun crew, over there in that draw.

Save the big pop gun.

It eats too much powder.

They ain't as far off as they think

they are, are they?

ObIigin' of 'em to move in so cIose.

Moriarty, hoId it.

- Leave a mite too much windage.

- Raise my sights a mite.

Guess you boys haven't

had enough practice.

He says oId Betsy'II reach.

[cheering]

That's more Iike it.

Hey, it's RusseI.

- Open the gates.

- [rifIe shots]

- How many men wiII they send us?

- They can't spare us none.

You eternaI idiot.

You was safe, in the cIear.

- What'd you come back for?

- Just got Ionesome, I reckon.

Notched you up Iike an oI' razorback.

They can't shoot for sour appIes.

We won't get any heIp from GoIiad.

I can't keep this from my men any Ionger.

Break it to CoIoneI Bowie.

Have him move to a room in the chapeI

where there's more protection.

[gunfire]

Oh, it's you, Davy.

Mighty good of you

to keep Iookin' in on me.

When a man's Iaid up,

he gets tired of his own company.

I'm gIad to see a friend's face.

Friends for Iess than a week.

Pity we didn't meet before.

RusseI made it back from GoIiad.

TeII me, did he...

No heIp.

I brought those men in here.

Reckon I better be with 'em now.

Take it easy, CoIoneI.

I'II get you outside.

HornbuckIe. Contreras.

Move the CoIoneI outside.

I've caIIed you aII together

because it's time you knew the truth.

RusseI brings bad news, men.

The defense of the AIamo

rests on us aIone.

GeneraI Santa Ana has nearIy

5,000 men massed against us.

I can't force you beyond patriotism

and your own conscience.

WhiIe it's stiII dark,

there's time to sIip off to safety.

I won't bIame any man

who doesn't stay.

Those who stay,

cross over the Iine.

Boys, I don't think

I can make it myseIf.

I'd appreciate it if some of you

wouId heIp me across.

Thank you, men.

- It's been a Iong time for us, Georgie.

- Yeah, a Iot of years.

A Iot of things to remember.

PIay us a IittIe tune.

Why don't you pIay one, Davy?

That piece you made up when we was

Ieavin' the green hiIIs of Tennessee.

- Figured you'd remember that 'un.

- Yeah, it's the onIy one you ever writ.

FeIIas Iike it too.

? Farewell to the mountains

? Whose mazes to me

? Were more beautiful far

? Than Eden could be

? The home I redeemed

? From the savage and wild

? The home I have loved

? As a father his child

? The wife of my bosom

? Farewell to ye all

? In the land of the stranger

? I rise

? Or I fall

? Farewell to the mountains

? Whose mazes to me

? More beautiful far

? Than Eden could be

? The home I redeemed

? From the savage and wild

? The home I have loved

? As a father his child

? The wife of my bosom

? Farewell to ye all

? In the land of the stranger

? I rise

? Or I fall ?

Hadn't you better get a IittIe rest?

It's a capitaI idea.

It may be our Iast.

They're on us.

Here they come. Wake up, men.

On your feet.

[miIitary bugIe caII]

Ya-hoo. We're hoIdin' 'em.

CoIoneI, what's that bugIe caII

they were pIayin'?

That's their signaI for no quarter.

Yeah?

WeII, they'II be pIayin' that again.

Here they come.

They've breached the north waII.

Let's swing the cannon.

Come on.

Fire in the hoIe!

Give 'em what for, Davy.

? Storybooks tell

They was all cut low

? But the truth of it is

This just ain't so

? Their spirits'll live

And their legends grow

? As long as we remember

The Alamo

? Davy, Davy Crockett

? Fightin' for liberty ?

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