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Viva La Quinta Brigada

Tom: C

Introdução: F    G    Am    F    G    C    F    G    Am    

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                          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.
  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.
                        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.
  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.
                             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, "Dupport 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.
  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.
                          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.
  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                              Am  
let us all remember them tonight.
          F                    G                      C            F                    G                    Am  
          Viva la Quinta Brigada, viva la Quinta Brigada.
 F  G  C  F  G  Am)