Anyone of a certain vintage will probably remember this little ditty:
Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee,
Greenest state in the land of the free,
Raised in the woods so he knew ev’ry tree.
Kilt him a b’ar when he was only three.
Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier!
That, of course, is the first verse of “The Ballad of Davy Crockett,” which introduced a television series aired in 1954…