<P> The English version , with completely different lyrics by Björn Ulvaeus , presents a vision of nostalgia for two veterans reminiscing in old age about a long ago battle in which they participated . `` I wrote all the songs as little stories . `` Fernando '' was about two old freedom - fighters from the war between Texas and Mexico . I was lying outside one summer night , looking at the stars and it suddenly came to me `` . `` I knew that the title ' Fernando ' had to be there , and after pondering a while , I had this vivid image in my mind of two old and scarred revolutionaries in Mexico sitting outside at night talking about old memories '' . The Mexican Revolution of 1910 began on 20 November of that year when a small force of revolutionaries led by Francisco Madero crossed the Rio Grande , from Texas to Mexico . </P>
<P> The English version , with completely different lyrics by Björn Ulvaeus , presents a vision of nostalgia for two veterans reminiscing in old age about a long ago battle in which they participated . `` I wrote all the songs as little stories . `` Fernando '' was about two old freedom - fighters from the war between Texas and Mexico . I was lying outside one summer night , looking at the stars and it suddenly came to me `` . `` I knew that the title ' Fernando ' had to be there , and after pondering a while , I had this vivid image in my mind of two old and scarred revolutionaries in Mexico sitting outside at night talking about old memories '' . The Mexican Revolution of 1910 began on 20 November of that year when a small force of revolutionaries led by Francisco Madero crossed the Rio Grande , from Texas to Mexico . </P>
what war is the abba song fernando about
what war is the abba song fernando about
The Mexican Revolution of 1910
The Mexican Revolution of 1910