Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Vive La Quinte Brigada, artist - Christy Moore. Album song Ride On, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 08.09.1991
Record label: Rhino
Song language: English
Vive La Quinte Brigada |
Ten years before I saw the light of morning |
A comradeship of heroes was laid |
From every corner of the world came sailing |
The Fifth International Brigade |
They came to stand beside the Spanish people |
To try and stem the rising fascist tide |
Franco’s allies were the powerful and wealthy |
Frank Ryan’s men came from the other side |
Even the olives were bleeding |
As the battle for Madrid it thundered on |
Truth and love against the force of evil |
Brotherhood against the fascist clan |
Viva la Quinta Brigada |
«No Pasaran», the pledge that made them fight |
«Adelante» is the cry around the hillside |
Let us all remember them tonight |
Bob Hilliard was a Church of Ireland pastor |
Form Killarney across the Pyrenees he came |
From Derry came a brave young Christian Brother |
Side by side they fought and died in Spain |
Tommy Woods age seventeen died in Cordoba |
With Na Fianna he learned to hold his gun |
From Dublin to the Villa del Rio |
Where he fought and died beneath the blazing sun |
Viva la Quinta Brigada |
«No Pasaran», the pledge that made them fight |
«Adelante» is the cry around the hillside |
Let us all remember them tonight |
Many Irishmen heard the call of Franco |
Joined Hitler and Mussolini too |
Propaganda from the pulpit and newspapers |
Helped O’Duffy to enlist his crew |
The word came from Maynooth, «support the Nazis» |
The men of cloth failed again |
When the Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire |
As they sailed beneath the swastika to Spain |
Viva la Quinta Brigada |
«No Pasaran», the pledge that made them fight |
«Adelante» is the cry around the hillside |
Let us all remember them tonight |
This song is a tribute to Frank Ryan |
Kit Conway and Dinny Coady too |
Peter Daly, Charlie Regan and Hugh Bonar |
Though many died I can but name a few |
Danny Boyle, Blaser-Brown and Charlie Donnelly |
Liam Tumilson and Jim Straney from the Falls |
Jack Nalty, Tommy Patton and Frank Conroy |
Jim Foley, Tony Fox and Dick O’Neill |
Viva la Quinta Brigada |
«No Pasaran», the pledge that made them fight |
«Adelante» is the cry around the hillside |
Let us all remember them tonight |