The Sonora Filibusters
Air: Ben Bolt 
Put's Original California Songster
Sacramento: Gardiner & Kirk, 1854
Oh, don't you remember Bill Walker, the great,
Bill Walker, the captain of the band,
That went to Sonora to clean out the State,
To take up and knee in the land?
They tore down the flag at the Enseñada Camp,
And hoisted the Star-Spangled Banner,
Which terrified the Greasers, though nothing but fun,
For Walker to scare Santa Anna.
Oh, don't you remember the town of Lopez,
Where Walker commenced his career,
And was shot in the back, so Fred. Emory says,
While stealing a poor Spanish steer?
Lopez still is standing, as filibuster dens,
And each hole and corner is full
Of filibuster thieves that were caught stealing hens,
And others their backs lined with wood.
Oh, don't you remember the ship-loads that went.
In spite of their friend, Uncle Sam,
With knives, guns and pistols, they started h—ll-bent,
For greasers they didn't care a d—n.
But warn't they astonish'd when they heard Sam had bought
Sonora, Chihuahua, and all,
And the "Portsmouth" was coming-to hang all she caught,
So Walker's Republic did fail.
Score from the Library Of Congress
Score from the Lester S Levy Collection
MIDI file of "Ben Bolt" (Used by permission of B. R. Tubb from his website at Public Domain Music)