Vive La Quinte Brigada-Christy Moore

[ti:Vive La Quinte Brigada] [ar:Christy Moore] [al:Ride On] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Vive La Quinte Brigada - Christy Moore [00:19.86]Ten years before I saw the light of morning [00:23.48] [00:24.79]A comradeship of heroes was laid [00:28.53] [00:29.66]From every corner of the world came sailing [00:34.65]The Fifth International Brigade [00:38.58] [00:39.52]They came to stand beside the Spanish people [00:44.07]To try and stem the rising fascist tide [00:49.13]Franco's allies were the powerful and wealthy [00:54.12]Frank Ryan's men came from the other side [00:59.18]Even the olives were bleeding [01:03.98]As the battle for Madrid it thundered on [01:09.16]Truth and love against the force of evil [01:13.96]Brotherhood against the fascist clan [01:18.80]Viva la Quinta Brigada [01:23.79]"No Pasaran" the pledge that made them fight [01:28.47]"Adelante" is the cry around the hillside [01:33.59]Let us all remember them tonight [01:38.46]Bob Hilliard was a Church of Ireland pastor [01:43.20]Form Killarney across the Pyrenees he came [01:48.26]From Derry came a brave young Christian Brother [01:53.18]Side by side they fought and died in Spain [01:57.99]Tommy Woods age seventeen died in Cordoba [02:02.55]With Na Fianna he learned to hold his gun [02:07.97]From Dublin to the Villa del Rio [02:12.96]Where he fought and died beneath the blazing sun [02:17.18] [02:18.12]Viva la Quinta Brigada [02:22.86]"No Pasaran" the pledge that made them fight [02:27.67]"Adelante" is the cry around the hillside [02:32.66]Let us all remember them tonight [02:37.59]Many Irishmen heard the call of Franco [02:42.45]Joined Hitler and Mussolini too [02:47.32]Propaganda from the pulpit and newspapers [02:52.25]Helped O'Duffy to enlist his crew [02:57.31]The word came from Maynooth "support the Nazis" [03:02.30]The men of cloth failed again [03:07.04]When the Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire [03:11.97]As they sailed beneath the swastika to Spain [03:17.09]Viva la Quinta Brigada [03:21.95]"No Pasaran" the pledge that made them fight [03:26.76]"Adelante" is the cry around the hillside [03:31.94]Let us all remember them tonight [03:36.74]This song is a tribute to Frank Ryan [03:41.42]Kit Conway and Dinny Coady too [03:46.60]Peter Daly Charlie Regan and Hugh Bonar [03:51.41]Though many died I can but name a few [03:56.34]Danny Boyle Blaser-Brown and Charlie Donnelly [04:00.65]Liam Tumilson and Jim Straney from the Falls [04:06.01]Jack Nalty Tommy Patton and Frank Conroy [04:11.00]Jim Foley Tony Fox and Dick O'Neill [04:15.99]Viva la Quinta Brigada [04:20.92]"No Pasaran" the pledge that made them fight [04:25.73]"Adelante" is the cry around the hillside [04:30.59] [04:32.19]Let us all remember them tonight Viva la Quinta Brigada