Viva La Quinta Brigada

Artist: Christy Moore (English)
User: Mark Shorten
Duration: 130 seconds
Delay: 12 seconds
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[Intro]
 F  G  Am       F  G  C       F  G  Am 
 
[Verse]
     C             G                C 
Ten years before I saw the light of morning,
     C                      F 
a comradeship of heroes was laid,
     F                               G 
from every corner of the world came sailing
     G          G7          C 
the Fifth International Brigade.
     G                                C 
They came to stand beside the Spanish people,
     C                               F 
to try and stem the rising fascist tide,
          F                            G 
Franco's allies were the powerful and wealthy,
     G               G7             C 
Frank Ryan's men came from the other side.
 G                   C 
Even the olives were bleeding,
       C                             F 
as the battle for Madrid it thundered on,
  F                                 G 
truth and love against the force of evil,
 G    G7                        C 
brotherhood against the fascist clan.
 
[Chorus]
  F 
Viva la Quinta Brigada,
    F             G                     C 
"No Pasaran", the pledge that made them fight.
     C            Em            Am 
"Adelante" is the cry around the hillside,
 F            G          C 
let us all remember them tonight.
 
[Verse]
    C              G                 C 
Bob Hilliard was a Church of Ireland pastor,
 C                                    F 
form Killarney across the Pyrenees he came,
     F                                  G 
from Derry came a brave young Christian Brother,
 G                 G7                 C 
side by side they fought and died in Spain.
      G                              C 
Tommy Woods aged seventeen died in Cordoba,
        C                             F 
with Na Fianna he learned to hold his gun,
     F                       G 
from Dublin to the Villa del Rio,
         G                 G7                C 
where he fought and died beneath the blazing sun.
 
[Chorus]
  F 
Viva la Quinta Brigada,
    F             G                     C 
"No Pasaran", the pledge that made them fight.
     C            Em            Am 
"Adelante" is the cry around the hillside,
 F            G          C 
let us all remember them tonight.
 
[Verse]
     C        G                  C 
Many Irishmen heard the call of Franco,
       C                     F 
joined Hitler and Mussolini, too.
      F                            G 
Propaganda from the pulpit and newspapers,
          G     G7           C 
helped O'Duffy to enlist his crew
    G                                     C 
The word came from Maynooth, "support the Nazis!"
    C                   F 
The men of cloth failed again.
         F                                        G 
When the Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire,
        G                  G7          C 
as they sailed beneath the swastika to Spain.
 
[Chorus]
  F 
Viva la Quinta Brigada,
    F             G                     C 
"No Pasaran", the pledge that made them fight.
     C            Em            Am 
"Adelante" is the cry around the hillside,
 F            G          C 
let us all remember them tonight.
 
[Verse]
      C        G                 C 
This song is a tribute to Frank Ryan,
    C                       F 
Kit Conway and Dinny Coady, too,
      F                            G 
Peter Daly, Charlie Regan and Hugh Bonar,
       G          G7                C 
though many died, I can but name a few.
      G                                C 
Danny Boyle, Blaser-Brown  and Charlie Donnelly,
     C                                 F 
Liam Tumilson and Jim Straney from the Falls,
     F                             G 
Jack Nalty, Tommy Patton and Frank Conroy,
    G           G7             C 
Jim Foley, Tony Fox and Dick O'Neill.
 
[Chorus]
  F 
Viva la Quinta Brigada,
    F             G                     C 
"No Pasaran", the pledge that made them fight.
     C            Em            Am 
"Adelante" is the cry around the hillside,
 F            G          C 
let us all remember them tonight.
 
[Outro]
 F        G         C    F        G        Am 
Viva la Quinta Brigada, viva la Quinta Brigada.
 F   G   C    F  G  Am  x4

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