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>It refers of course to the mexican revolution 1910. >If you consider the lyrics "now we're old and grey >Fernando" It obviously refers not to a current event. > There were many many border incursions. Rebels could >have been going either way (cross the Rio Grande) to >fight the Federales, or the US army. Fernando and his >friend were Mexican rebels circa 1910. Fighting for >"freedon in this land">I think actually ABBA was not >going that far back into >>history. There's Rio Grande in Spain, there's Rio >>Grande in Texas, but above all, there's Rio Grande in >>Bolivia, which was actually crossed by Che Guevara and >>his Guerrilleros before being captured and executed. >>Of course there are many details in the song that >>would not check out with the factual details of that >>final chapter in Che's history (drums, bugle calls, >>and that Fernando was portrayed as an ageing survivor >>of the conflict), but the chilling and ominous >>atmosphere, the mention of the enemy "getting closer", >>and the protagonists fighting for "liberty" in "this >>land" (as opposed to "our land"), would all suggest >>that it was a very tragic incident that happened not >>so long time ago. There is of course massive use of >>poetic licence in that song, like Che becoming >>Fernando and a living old man, but I can only think of >>that incident in history that would exactly echo the >>pathos created in that song. And I don't think ABBA >>at that time could relate to Mexicans in defense of >>their homeland or the Spanish civil war. Instead, >>being children of the raging sixties, they would have >>had a lot of sympathy with the Argentinian >>revolutionary.

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