Scott Miller - Say Ho lyrics

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