Word: adelita
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Though fiery-tempered old Leonor drove many a military wolf away from her girls, she never had to bother about a taciturn sergeant named Antonio del Rioarmenta. He was in love with young Adelita, but he was too shy to tell anyone about it. Instead he wrote a song for her, working out the tune on his harmonica. In the hospital train at Aguascalientes one day, he sang...
Popular among soldiers was Adelita...
...days later the sergeant's general sent him across a bullet-swept street in Torreón for a canteen of cognac. Adelita...
...Symbol. By an ironic twist, the sergeant's song became the favorite of Pancho Villa's men, not of Carranza's army, where it was born. For years, a guitar-strumming mariachi had only to play Adelita in the company of a Carrancista to get his guitar strings shot off. Carranza won the war, but Adelita has long since won the battle of the mariachi bands. Today, when a group of paunchy old boys gather in a cantina for an evening-Indians who robbed with Zapata, green-eyed Chihuahuans who followed Felipe Angeles, tall-talking Sonorans...