Vive La Quinte Brigada - Live

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