"Come to the Bower"

In "Honkytonking with the Silver Strings," which was recently released in the 2018 Panther City Review, one of the characters is a descendant of Frederick Lemsky, who was the flute player at the Battle of San Jacinto. Lemsky, a Central European immigrant who arrived in Texas in 1836, is believed to have played the song "Come to the Bower" during the famous battle.

To learn more about Frederick Lemsky, please follow the link to the TSHA article: 

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fle28

Here is "Come to the Bower" played by none other than Townes Van Zandt: