“Adelita” is a stirring ballad, or more specifically a corrido, with echoes of battle, blood and honor swept up in the dusty haze of history. The Mexican Revolution took place 1910 to 1920.

My wife, Sonia Ruiz, reminds me of the women in the Mexican Revolutionary song “ Adelita ” who wore “bandoliers across their chests.” Mexico’s women fought alongside their men in all the ...