D*
[Verse 1]
D G
He was born in Virginia,
D G
In the Shenadoah Valley,
D G Em A
Right about the time that this country got free,
D G
When his father died they left,
D G
Packed it up and headed west,
D G Em A
To the hills that put the east in Tennessee,
D
Say Ho.
[Interlude]
D*
[Verse 2]
D G
A man has got to make his mark,
D G
And the second British war did start,
D G Em A
He was bored so he joined and went along,
D G
Took an arrow in the hip,
D G
A ball in the shoulder but he ever quit,
D G Em A
Still full of fight when they finally dragged him home,
D
Say ho.
[Interlude]
D*
[Chorus 1]
F#m Bm
Reading Homer to some Cherokee maidens,
F#m Bm
And you know how Tennessee is in the fall,
F#m Bm
If you're not gonna make your dreams epic,
Em Asus4
Why bother to dream anything at all?
[Verse 3]
D G
He met a man named Andy Jack,
D G
Who put him on the Nashville map,
D G Em A
But even then that town could piss you off,
D G
You partied hard and ran the state,
D G
Found a girl to take his name,
D G Em A
And they still don't know why he up and left it all,
D
Say Ho.
[Interlude]
D*
[Chorus 2]
F#m Bm
Never trust nobody when you're drinking,
F#m Bm
Lest you get insulted or rolled,
F#m Bm
Drink too much you'll pickle up your instinct,
Em Asus4
And then you can’t trust anyone at all.
[Verse 4]
D G
Half mystic and half showman,
D G
Half poet and half sage,
D G Em A
And way too stubborn to ever admit defeat,
D G
Although Texas was no state,
D G
San Jacinto was the place,
D G Em A
That destiny was ready to be seized,
D
Say Ho.
[Interlude]
D*
[Verse 5]
D G
Well Texas he created you,
D G
And three times he did save you too,
D G Em A
And tried to help you make it on your own,
D G
You joined the union anyway,
D G
And when he thought you should stay,
D G Em A
You turned your back on him and sent him home.
[Chorus 3]
F#m Bm
Is there anyone still left so full of honor,
F#m Bm
You can trust everything you heard?
F#m Bm
In Texas anywhere that you may wander,
Em Asus4
Sam Houston was the man that kept his word.
