Eggs Laid by Tigers

Where the beautiful bluebonnets grow,

The land of our forefathers

Who died at the Alamo.

You may live on the plains or the mountains

Or down where the seabreezes blow.

But you'll still be in beautiful Texas

The most beautiful place that I know"

But I wonder, Whose forefathers? Mine were somewhere in South Carolina or Mississippi. I suppose others were in Arkansas. Many of my classmates no doubt thought of their forefathers as coming from Mexico, since most of my classmates recently were from Mexico; and the Alamo would have a very different meaning for them, if any thought of the meaning of the words. I wonder if any did.

I wonder if the song is still sung. Perhaps time or political correctness has eroded its popularity.

"forefather": a member of one's family or people.

P.s., while looking up Texas militias, I ran across this wonderful pic of the courthouse in Denton:

It reminds me of the courthouse in Gonzales,

on the road from Austin to Raymondville just before a tin shack that sat on the side on the road. That tin shack had the best barbecue ever known to mankind. It still lies on my tongue, 60 years later.

I would ride that road and eat that barbecue again, under a sun that is young once only. I tear a little.

Silly old man.