Testi Viva La Quinta Brigada - Christy Moore

Viva La Quinta Brigada

Ten years before I saw the light of morning\nA comradeship of heroes was laid\nFrom every corner of the world came sailing\nThe Fifth International Brigade\nThey came to stand beside the Spanish people\nTo try and stem the rising fascist tide\nFranco’s allies were the powerful and wealthy\nFrank Ryan’s men came from the other side\nEven the olives were bleeding\nAs the battle for Madrid it thundered on\nTruth and love against the force of evil\nBrotherhood against the fascist clan\nViva la Quinta Brigada\n«No Pasaran», the pledge that made them fight\n«Adelante» is the cry around the hillside\nLet us all remember them tonight\nBob Hilliard was a Church of Ireland pastor\nForm Killarney across the Pyrenees he came\nFrom Derry came a brave young Christian Brother\nSide by side they fought and died in Spain\nTommy Woods age seventeen died in Cordoba\nWith Na Fianna he learned to hold his gun\nFrom Dublin to the Villa del Rio\nWhere he fought and died beneath the blazing sun\nViva la Quinta Brigada\n«No Pasaran», the pledge that made them fight\n«Adelante» is the cry around the hillside\nLet us all remember them tonight\nMany Irishmen heard the call of Franco\nJoined Hitler and Mussolini too\nPropaganda from the pulpit and newspapers\nHelped O’Duffy to enlist his crew\nThe word came from Maynooth, «support the Nazis»\nThe men of cloth failed again\nWhen the Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire\nAs they sailed beneath the swastika to Spain\nViva la Quinta Brigada\n«No Pasaran», the pledge that made them fight\n«Adelante» is the cry around the hillside\nLet us all remember them tonight\nThis song is a tribute to Frank Ryan\nKit Conway and Dinny Coady too\nPeter Daly, Charlie Regan and Hugh Bonar\nThough many died I can but name a few\nDanny Boyle, Blaser-Brown and Charlie Donnelly\nLiam Tumilson and Jim Straney from the Falls\nJack Nalty, Tommy Patton and Frank Conroy\nJim Foley, Tony Fox and Dick O’Neill\nViva la Quinta Brigada\n«No Pasaran», the pledge that made them fight\n«Adelante» is the cry around the hillside\nLet us all remember them tonight