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Thread #8926   Message #1585469
Posted By: Coyote Breath
18-Oct-05 - 02:04 PM
Thread Name: Origins/ADD: Songs about the Texas Rangers
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: the Texas Ranger
A footnote: In the film "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez" (starring a young Edward James Olmos) the tune is played on a button accordion (in the background) as the Texas Rangers were getting their horses up into the railway cars as they commenced their "manhunt" of Gregorio Cortez. It was the last such operation of the Texas Rangers and ultimately proved to be an embarassment to the "noble band".

There is a corrida (actually more than one) which recounts the events surrounding the manhunt and the incredibly stupid actions of the Rangers.

Worth watching.

CB