We're the Boys for Mexico

DESCRIPTION: "The Mexicans are doomed to fall, God in his wrath forsook 'em." The boys will take their "gold and silver images Plentiful and handy." When they win, "We'll vote ourselves extensive farms, Each one as big as Texas." They'll take "the Halls of Montezumer"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1933 (Jackson-EarlySongsOfUncleSam)
KEYWORDS: war Mexico theft patriotic | jingoism
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Jackson-EarlySongsOfUncleSam, "We're the Boys for Mexico" (1 text)
Lawrence-MusicForPatriotsPoliticiansAndPresidents, p. 316, "We're the Boys for Mexico" (1 text)
Roud #13944
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Yankee Doodle" (tune) and references there
NOTES [56 words]: On its face, this looks like it derives from the Mexican War of 1846-1848 (for which see, e.g., "Santy Anno"). But American settlers in Texas had been making trouble for the Mexican government for years before that, so it might come from Texas's War for Independence, or maybe just from Texas's long period of general trouble-making. - RBW
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File: ESUS034

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