Tonalidad: E major•
Verse 1
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B
Around the time I saw
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the light of morning
A
A comradeship of heroes was laid
From every corner of the world
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The Fifty International Brigade.
Verse 2
B
They came to stand beside
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the Spanish people
To try and stem the rising
Franco's allies were the
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powerful and wealthy
Frank Ryan's men came
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from the other side.
Verse 3
B
E
Even the olives were bleeding
A
As the battle for Madrid it thundered on
Truth and love against the
Brotherhood against
the fascist clan.
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A
Verse 4
Chorus:
Viva la Quinta Brigada,
B
No Pasaran, the pledge that made
E
them fight
C#m
Adelante was the cry around the hillside
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B
E
Let us all remember them tonight.
Verse 5
B
Bob Hilliard was a Church
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of Ireland pastor
Form Killarney across
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the Pyrenees he came
From Derry came a brave
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young Christian Brother
And side by side they fought
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and died in Spain.
Verse 6
B
Tommy Woods age seventeen
E
died in Cordoba
A
With Na Fianna he learned to hold his gun
B
From Dublin to the Villa del Rio
He fought and died beneath the Spanish
E
A
sun.
Interlude 1
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E
C#m
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B
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Verse 7
Irishmen heard the
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Joined Hitler and Mussolini too
Propaganda from the pulpit
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Helped O'Duffy to enlist his crew.
Verse 8
B
The call came from Maynooth,
E
"support the facists"
A
The men of cloth had failed yet again
When the Bishops blessed the
B
Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire
As they sailed beneath the swastika to
Interlude 2
Spain.
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B
E
C#m
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B
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Verse 9
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(Chorus) This song
is a tribute to
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Kit Conway and Dinny Coady too
Peter Daly, Charlie Regan and
Though many died I can
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but name a few.
Verse 10
E
Blaser- Brown and Charlie Donnelly
Liam Tumilson and Jim
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Straney from the Falls
Jack Nalty, Tommy Patton
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and Frank Conroy
Jim Foley, Tony Fox and Dick
O'Neill.
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(Chorus repeated)
Outro 1
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C#m
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E
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C#m
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