Ringtail

My name is Martin Parmer, you might never heard of me
I was born up in Virginia, made my way to Tennessee
and I ran the mill on Yellow Creek for Montgomery Bell
I used that steel to kill the Brits in the War of 1812

Well I drifted on to Missouri, where I built myself a home
in the Fishing River Valley, where no white man would go
and I raised myself a family and skinned myself some bars
and I made truce with the Sioux except the killer they called Two Hearts

I am the Ringtail Panther
wild and wooly hard to curry
when I'm mad I fight and when I fight I whup

Well I heard word of a wilder place, down in Mexico
in a land that they called Tejas, and I talked my gal to go
then me and the Edwards brothers and a band of Cherokee
said we'll call this place Fredonia, free of all this tyranny

Well I lost that fight with Mexico, and it burned me up inside
and it took the Texians ten more years to figure I was right
but when the Alamo was lost, I was there at Washington
declaring Texas freedom from Santa Anna's guns

When Sam Houston won the war, he was on my Isom's gray
Sam was born on the day I died, Texas Independence Day
my name is Martin Parmer, and I tell you this my friend
I was born up in Virginia, but I am a Texian

I said my name is Martin Parmer, you might never heard of me
I was born up in Virginia, made my way to Tennessee
then I drifted on to Missouri, where I skinned myself some bars
then on down to Texas, where I helped put up that Lone Star.

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