2002

Bb F C Dm
My boy fought with Santa Ana
Bb F Dm C
His mother begged him not to go
Bb F C Dm
But the soldiers marched through the center of the town
Bb C F
On their way to the Alamo

The yankees make them out as heroes
Two hundred men who held back the siege
Overwhelmed, they knew that they would fall
But they fought on because they believed

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F | C | Dm | Dm
The men of the Alamo were tough
The men of the Alamo were brave
But in the end they all died
Bb| C | F | F
For the right to own a slave

My boy died with Santa Ana
And at the time he said my life is worth the cause
The world is changing and if we don’t fight back
We won’t remember what it was

They make it out as good and evil
As if we all know what it’s for
But in the end it’s just that old men they want money
And young men all they really want is war

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They make it out as good and evil
And the bad guys always fail
But they’re just good because then they won the war
And the winners tell the tale

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They tell the tale of Colonel Travis
And how he drew a line in the sand
And told them all they could get out with their lives
Or stay and die like a man

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