Viva La Quinte Brigada-Christy Moore

[ti:Viva La Quinte Brigada] [ar:Christy Moore] [al:Collection Part Two] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Viva La Quinte Brigada - Christy Moore [00:15.21]Ten years before I saw the light of morning [00:18.72] [00:20.10]A comradeship of heroes was laid [00:23.30] [00:25.01]From every corner of the world came sailing [00:28.51] [00:29.59]The Fifth International Brigade [00:33.11] [00:34.92]They came to stand beside the Spanish people [00:38.26] [00:39.64]To try and stem the rising fascist tide [00:43.01] [00:44.65]Franco's allies were the powerful and wealthy [00:47.99] [00:49.60]Frank Ryan's men came from the other side [00:52.65] [00:55.03]Even the olives were bleeding [00:57.79] [00:59.54]As the battle for Madrid it thundered on [01:02.76] [01:04.46]Truth and love against the force of evil [01:08.02] [01:09.48]Brotherhood against the fascist clan [01:12.61] [01:14.87]Viva la Quinta Brigada [01:17.90] [01:19.20]"No Pasaran" the pledge that made them fight [01:23.20] [01:24.08]"Adelante" is the cry around the hillside [01:28.07] [01:29.21]Let us all remember them tonight [01:32.51] [01:34.26]Bob Hilliard was a Church of Ireland pastor [01:38.01] [01:39.10]Form Killarney across the Pyrenees he came [01:42.22] [01:44.06]From Derry came a brave young Christian Brother [01:47.20] [01:49.07]Side by side they fought and died in Spain [01:52.09] [01:53.89]Tommy Woods age seventeen died in Cordoba [01:57.11] [01:58.84]With Na Fianna he learned to hold his gun [02:01.83] [02:03.69]From Dublin to the Villa del Rio [02:06.98] [02:08.83]Where he fought and died beneath the blazing sun [02:11.85] [02:13.79]Viva la Quinta Brigada [02:17.20] [02:18.40]No Pasaran the pledge that made them fight [02:21.91] [02:23.68]Adelante is the cry around the hillside [02:27.35] [02:28.61]Let us all remember them tonight [02:31.57] [02:33.63]Many Irishmen heard the call of Franco [02:37.11] [02:38.44]Joined Hitler and Mussolini too [02:41.88] [02:43.30]Propaganda from the pulpit and newspapers [02:47.59] [02:48.30]Helped O'Duffy to enlist his crew [02:51.40] [02:53.56]The word came from Maynooth "support the Nazis" [02:56.65] [02:58.46]The men of cloth failed again [03:01.38] [03:03.06]When the Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire [03:06.75] [03:08.10]As they sailed beneath the swastika to Spain [03:11.31] [03:13.46]Viva la Quinta Brigada [03:16.73] [03:17.87]No Pasaran the pledge that made them fight [03:21.32] [03:22.97]Adelante is the cry around the hillside [03:26.96] [03:28.19]Let us all remember them tonight [03:31.42] [03:33.05]This song is a tribute to Frank Ryan [03:36.35] [03:37.73]Kit Conway and Dinny Coady too [03:41.06] [03:42.70]Peter Daly Charlie Regan and Hugh Bonar [03:46.33] [03:47.81]Though many died I can but name a few [03:50.93] [03:52.71]Danny Boyle Blaser-Brown and Charlie Donnelly [03:56.11] [03:57.61]Liam Tumilson and Jim Straney from the Falls [04:01.22] [04:02.37]Jack Nalty Tommy Patton and Frank Conroy [04:05.89] [04:07.47]Jim Foley Tony Fox and Dick O'Neill [04:10.52] [04:12.55]Viva la Quinta Brigada [04:15.92] [04:17.36]No Pasaran the pledge that made them fight [04:20.71] [04:22.31]Adelante is the cry around the hillside [04:26.37] [04:27.37]Let us all remember them tonight [04:30.87] [04:32.36]Viva la Quinta Brigada [04:36.49] [04:37.59]Viva la Quinta Brigada