Johnny Cash - Southwestward lyrics

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 d**h