"Santianna", also known as "Plains of Mexico", or spelled as "Santiana", "Santy Anna", "Santayana", "Santiano", "Santy Anno" etc., is a sea shanty about the Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna. The song is listed as number 207 in the Roud Folk Song Index.
"Santianna", also known as "Plains of Mexico", or spelled as "Santiana", "Santy Anna", "Santayana", "Santiano", "Santy Anno" etc., is a sea shanty about the Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna. The song is listed as number 207 in the Roud Folk Song Index.
==Origin== The theme of the shanty, which dates from at least the 1850s, may have been inspired by topical events in the news related to conflicts between the armies of Mexico, commanded by Antonio López de Santa Anna, and the U.S., commanded by Zachary Taylor, in the Mexican–American War.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).