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Thread #57389   Message #902749
Posted By: GUEST,sorefingers
03-Mar-03 - 06:45 PM
Thread Name: Streets of Laredo - 'Live in the Nation'??
Subject: RE: Laredo/Texas/the Nation
Guest your a gem in disguise and if ever there was a case for Max's infinite wisdom, then you are it!

Interesting aside, Escamillo I think is the gentleman's name, an Argentine who is a member may be able to further educate us about it, there is I believe a version in Spanish not popular en el Norte, but nontheless the same ould thang, might be worth looking soley in Spanish language resources for more information, but the tune certainly did ship with members of my immediate family settling in Chile/Agentina 1790-1850s. The funny thing about that migration, these folks thought ill of the welcome afforded Catholic Irish in some parts and both had the knowledge and the MONEY to do something about it, hence departing the good ole Union, stranger still some of them fought in the revolutionary war(I have the records) but still departed south as soon as the dust settled. Most are still Catholics and most are now integrated into the the populations of nearly every country in the Continent.