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Viva La Quince Brigada 
Viva La Quince Brigada (Christy Moore) 
Ten years before I saw lhe light of morning A comradeship of heroes was laid. From every corner of the world came sailing The Fifteenth Inlernational 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 af evil, Brotherhood against the Fascist clan. 
Vive La Quince Brigada! "No Paseran" the pledge that made them fight. "Adelante" was the cry around the hillside. Let us all remember them tonight. 
Bob Hillard was a Church of Ireland pastor; From Killarney across the Pyrenees ho came. From Derry came a brave young Christian Brother. Side by side they fought and died in Spain. 
Tommy Woods, aged 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 Spanish sun. 
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 Fascists.' The men of cloth failed yet again When the bishops blessed the blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire As they sailed beneath the swastika to Spain. 
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 Doyle, Blaser-Brown and Charlie Donnelly. Liam Tumilson and Jim Straney from the Falls. Jack Nally, Tommy Patton and Frank Conroy, Jim Foley, Tony Fox and Dick O'Neill. 
Written in 1983 Copyright Christy Moore apr97