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Thread #38359   Message #2755467
Posted By: GUEST,Tommy D from BIG KC
30-Oct-09 - 04:38 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Farewell to the Mountains (Davy Crockett)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Farewell to the Mountains (Davy Crockett)
Someone asked earlier if anyone could post the tune to farewell.

I wish I could........for the tune is in my head and always has been.
I remember hardly able to contain myself waiting for the next episode.

I remember as a kid listening to Fess Parker singing that.
It was the scene from the evening before the last battle.

Davey asked Georgie Russell (Buddy Epson) if he had his guitar. (of course it just so happened to be there)

I remember him singing a couple of the verses, and at the end he closed, "Farewell, farewell, fare thee well, farewell. Farewell, farewell, fair thee well." I vividly recall wiping a tear from each eye.

Davey Crockett became a hero to many of us then. I was a little kid who lived in the inner-city of Baltimore, Md.   Great memory!