Added to their thirteen colonies Tennessee, Vermont, Kentucky

Louisiana and Ohio and Mississippi and Indiana Alabama Maine Missouri

Added Arakansas and Michigan added Florida and Texas

And in Texas five thousand men under Santa Anna

Had crossed the Rio Grande headed for San Antonio

David Crockett left Tennessee with the volunteers headed for San Antonio

At a Spanish mission near San Antonio they met a knife-fighter

And a gambler named Jim Bowie and a Britisher named Travis

One hundred eighty Americans against five thousand to the death