AWAKE! TO ARMS IN TEXAS!
Air- Dixie

Hear ye not the sound of battle,
Sabres clash and muskets rattle?
Awake, awake, awake in Texas!
Hostile footsteps on your border;
Hostile columns tread in order;
Awake, awake, awake in Texas!

Chorus:
O, fly to arms in Texas!
From Texas land we'll rout the band
That comes to conquer Texas-
Awake, awake! and rout the foe from Texas!

See the red smoke hanging o'er us;
Hear the cannons booming chorus;
Awake, awake, awake in Texas!
See our steady columns forming,
Hear the shouting- hear the storming;
Awake, awake, awake in Texas!

All the Northmen's forces coming;
Hark! the distant rapid drumming;
Awake, awake, awake in Texas!
Prouder ranks than theirs were driven,
When our Mexic ties were riven;
Awake, awake, awake in Texas!

Gird your loins with swords and sabre;
Give your lives to freedom's labor;
Awake, awake, awake in Texas!
What though ev'ry heart be sadden'd-
What though all the land be redden'd-
Awake, awake, awake in Texas!

Shall this boasting, mad invader,
Trample Texas and degrade her?
Awake, awake, awake in Texas!
By our fathers' proud example,
Texas soil they shall not trample;
Awake, awake, awake in Texas!

Texans! meet them on the border;
Charge them into wild disorder;
Awake, awake, awake in Texas!
Hew the vandals down before you,
Till the last inch they restore you;
Awake, awake, awake in Texas!

Through the echoing hills resounding,
Hear the Texas bugles sounding;
Awake, awake, awake in Texas!
Arouse from ev'ry hill and valley;
List the bugle! Rally! Rally!
Awake, awake, awake in Texas!

p. 8, no author listed.
Francis D. Allan, 1874, "Allan's Lone Star Ballads, A Collection of Southern Patriotic Songs Made During Confederate Times," 200pp. Burt Franklin, NY; reprint 1970, Lenox Hill (Burt Franklin): Resource and Source Works Series 578, American Classics in History and Social Science 153.
These southern patriotic songs were preserved through the persistance of Allan. During the War, the compiler published a pamphlet of Southern war songs under the title "Allan's Lone Star Ballads No. 1" as well as a number in sheets. The book was delayed through heavy losses, "the legimate result of the war, and which was followed by the wanton burning of all his property by Major G. W. Smith and the Federal Soldiers under his command, at the city of Brenham, in Texas, on the night of the seventh of September, 1866, long after the war was 'supposed' to be over, and from the effects of which he has never recovered."
Many songs were destroyed, but Allan re-gathered them, together with many he did not have before.
Although he admits that some are "unlettered effusions," he was influenced by a desire to 'preserve,.....a very important, but often neglected, portion of the history of those times that can never be forgotten."