Farewell to the Mountains

"Farewell to the Mountains" (simply titled as "Farewell") is a song heard in the Davy Crockett serial and in the 1955 compilation film, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier. An adapted version of the poem written by the actual Davy Crockett in real life, an instrumental version of the song was heard in the first two episodes of the series. A version with lyrics was sung near the end of the third episode "Davy Crockett at the Alamo" (also near the end of King of the Wild Frontier) where the fictionalized Davy tells Georgie Russell to cheer him and his fellow soldiers up at the Alamo to remind him of his life in Tennessee just before Davy and his fellow troops plan to get some rest.
==Lyrics==
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Film/TV serial version=
Davy Crockett: Farewell to the mountain whose mazes to me
Were more beautiful far than Eden could be
The home I redeemed from the savage and wild
The home I have loved as a father his child
The wife of my bosom, farewell to ye all
In the land of the stranger, I rise or I fall
Georgie Russell: Farewell to the mountain whose mazes to me
Chorus / Georgie / Davy: More beautiful far than Eden could be
The home I redeemed from the savage and wild
The home I have loved as a father his child
The wife of my bosom, farewell to ye all
In the land of the stranger, I rise or I fall
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Farewell to the mountains whose mazes to me
Were more beautiful far than Eden could be
No fruit was forbidden, but Nature had spread
Her bountiful board, and her children were fed
The hills were our garners - our herds wildly grew
And Nature was shepherd and husbandman too
I felt like a monarch, yet thought like a man
As I thank the Great Giver, and worshipped His plan
The home I forsake where my offspring arose
The graves I forsake where my children repose
The home I redeemed from the savage and wild
The home I have loved as a father his child
The corn that I planted, the fields that I cleared,
The flocks that I raised, and the cabin I reared
The wife of my bosom, farewell to ye all
In the land of the stranger, I rise or I fall
Farewell to my country, I fought for thee well
When the savage rushed forth like the demons from Hell
In peace or in war, I have stood by thy side
My country, for thee I have lived, would have died
But I am cast off, my career now is run
And I wander abroad like the Prodigal Son
Where the wild savage roves, and the broad prairies spread
The fallen, despised, will again go ahead
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==Trivia==
*Not all the verses from the original poem are kept in the Disney serial adaptation of Davy Crockett. The first lines Davy sung are the same from first verse in the traditional poem, but the "forbidden fruit" verse was replaced with "the home I redeemed" in order to sound less somber.
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