The Maid of Monterey-John Hewitt-1848 - Performed by Tom Roush
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- This is one of the few songs that was written about the Mexican-American War that was fought between 1846 and 1848. Most Americans know little and choose to ignore this conflict but I assure you that the people of Mexico remember it The song was composed by John Hewitt who would write many songs of the Confederacy in the American Civil War. This song can be found on imy CD “My Grandfather's Clock which is available on Tunes @ / my-grandfathers-clock or at tomroush.us @ tomroush.us/My%...
I am from Monterrey and I assure you , we do not remember this song. But is good that Americas do. Thanks for sharing. :)
RIP Tom Roush - Aug. 30, 2021
You did fabulous work on doing covers / remakes on these old and forgotten, almost forgotten 125+ year old Civil War era music. Many will miss you
Did he died?!
@@Ricardo-nc9hn - Well.... I guess you can read.
Glad to see you're still here, Tom. I pay so little attention to things since the wife's stroke I hadn't noticed I was missing you in one forum. Great song, btw. ... Chase Lane
That’s an incredibly evocative song. Wow.
Another fantastic job of bringing history to life!
Thanks, Grandpa!!!!!!
A beautiful song Mr. Roush, it's always exciting to see you upload a new cover, especially a Mexican War song, as you mentioned a frequently neglected conflict. Will you be at Gettysburg this year?
💘 Bravo!! from your # 1 fan.
Very nice Tom - enjoyed that.
Where are you Tom? I've been looking everywhere for you mate. I see you're still composing. Good to see and hear.
Just keep up the good work!
I'm mexican.
The mexican-american war is a topic that makes me sad often. For us it was such an unfair war that we lost against an enemy that was (and still is) stronger than us, and that stolen the half of our territory when we needed it to be the great nation that we also wanted to be. Maybe the both countries we could've live a history of cooperation and brotherhood, but they decided to step on us and take adventage of us, just as they (your country) keep doing it even today.
This song, as many of those times, reminds me how sad it should had felt to loose the war and to know the consequences of it, that maybe will never be solved. The mexican, irish and spanish people that fought in our side maybe didn't ever knew the consequences of the war they lost, and in wich victory they left all of their hope. I live with that resentment most of my days, except when I lisent to this song: I don't know if it is supossed to be sung by an irish soldier of the Saint Patrick's Batallion, or an american foemen. But the notes, the lyrics that I can understand, give me a sensation of mercy against all this situation: nothing else but sadness, that cals more to forgivness than to revenge. I hope that one day the consequences of that horrible war be solved, and that we can all forget what happened, and be to brother nations as it always should had be...
A powerful sentimental song about a terrible war which only Congressman Abraham Lincoln had the courage to condemn.
F--k the political comment. It's a wonderful song.
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It's not a "political comment." It's a HUMANE comment on the fact that the war with Mexico in the 1840s was little more than an act of American imperialism whereby we stole lands that rightfully belonged to Mexico, but too many Americans believed those lands should belong to the United States, because they bought into the idea of "Manifest Destiny," that is to say, the belief that the U.S. had a God-given right to grab as much land as it could in order for the republic to expand its territories and its prestige from one end of the country to the other, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
This doctrine was not only used to justify stealing parts of what are now Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona from Mexico, but also as an excuse to take over the Hawaiian Islands and send their Queen into exile, to grab Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines away from Spain, and worst of all, to steal the rest of the country from the original Native Americans, in other words, the Indians, who were only called that because when Christopher Columbus made his first voyage to the "New World," he thought he had found India.
The Mexican War was really the idea of James K. Polk, the eleventh President of the United States, who agreed with many people that America needed to obtain Mexican lands to add to the U.S.A. to help the nation grow. To do this, he took advantage of a skirmish between American and Mexican settlers along the Texas-Mexico border during which several Americans were killed. This gave President Polk a reason to go before Congress and ask for an official declaration of war on Mexico, stating that "the enemy has invaded our lands and shed American blood on American soil." This wasn't exactly accurate because the Mexicans had as much right to the land where the blood was shed as the Americans did. Polk just needed an excuse to start a war with Mexico, even if it meant that innocent Mexicans would be killed or wounded in the process. It's no wonder that the then Congressman Abraham Lincoln was the only one to vote against the declaration of war.
Eventually, many people found out that Polk's "American blood/American soil" statement was only half-true, and this made the Mexican-American War almost as unpopular back then as the Vietnam conflict was during the 1960s-'70s, and that war was considered an act of American imperialism too.
Thank you for this comment. I am Cuban and so I know the truth of the Spanish-American war, like the fact that the Maine was not sunk by the Spaniards, but by Americans themselves. Much more to say on this but we’ll let it go for now.
May I add that although I firmly believe we need to process all the immigrants entering the U.S. at the southern border, we should also realize that that southwest corner of the u.S. did once belong to Mexico anyway.
i love it Mr. Roush!
Mr Roush died sadly