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Viva La Quince Brigada - Carlos Núñez Chords

Chords: F, From, Derry, Conway, Dinny, Coady, Danny, Boyle,

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Genre: folk, celtic, world


[C]Ten years be[G]fore I saw the [C]light of morning

A comradeship of [F]heroes was laid

From every corner of the [G]world came sailing
The Fifteenth [F]International [C]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
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Viva la Quince Brigada

'No Pasaran', [G]the pledge that [C]made them fight

'Adelante' is the cry around [Am]the hillside
[F]Let us [G]all remember [C]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 Quince 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

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