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Dolan's Original Songs
(This song description was provided by
Dr. Lloyd Duvall, President, Sierra Vista Symphony, as written in the
program notes for Dolan's appearance with the Symphony on April 15,
2005)
The year was 1929. The place was Naco, Sonora,
a little village on the border of Mexico and southeastern Arizona.
A revolution broke out when the citizens of Naco decided to rise up
against Mexico’s
Federal government in protest to heavy taxes and general displeasure
with how the country was being run.
This was a unique little battle in
many ways, not excluding the fact that it was fought from 9 AM until
5 PM daily. Yes, every evening both sides would cease fire, return
to their homes and tents, get a good night’s sleep and take
up where they had left off the following morning.
The “Naco Revolution” became
a major subject of barroom and barbershop conversation in Bisbee.
Many of its residents would even pack picnic lunches, drive their
Model T Fords, or horses and buggies, down along the border fence
and sit to watch the proceedings. Well, believe it or not, someone
even took the trouble to set up some bleachers that were borrowed
from the local high school.
While all of this was going on, an
Irishman barnstormer by the name of Patrick Murphy flew onto the scene
with his leather helmet, goggles and bi-winged airplane. It seems that
Patrick Murphy proceeded to swig down too many shots of Irish whiskey
while sitting at a bar in Bisbee’s
Brewery Gulch. As a result, he is said to have professed (in slurred
speech) “I’m going to make some homemade bombs, load ‘em
into my ‘Jenny’ airplane and fly down there to Naco to
help out those poor under-equipped and overrun revolutionists.” And
in joyful spirit, he did just that.
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