Vive La Quinte Brigada

[Intro ]
F G Am Am 
F G C C 
F G Am Am 


[Verso 1]
 
    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                       C 
The Fifth International Brigade 
 


[Verso 2]
 
     G                                C 
They came to stand beside the Spanish people 
                                   F 
To try and stem the rising fascist tide 
         F                            G 
Francos allies were the powerful and wealthy 
      G                              C 
Frank Ryans men came from the other side 
 


[Verso 3]
 
G                    C 
Even the olives were bleeding 
                                      F 
As the battle for Madrid it thundered on 
                                    G 
Truth and love against the force of evil 
                                C 
Brotherhood against the fascist clan 
 


[Refrão]
 
F 
Viva la Quinta Brigada 
F                 G                     C 
No Pasaran, the pledge that made them fight 
                  C/B            Am 
Adelante is the cry around the hillside 
F          G             C 
Let us all remember them tonight 
 


[Verso 4]
 
                   G                 C 
Bob Hilliard was a Church of Ireland pastor 
                                      F 
Form Killarney across the Pyrenees he came 
                                        G 
From Derry came a brave young Christian Brother 
                                     C 
Side by side they fought and died in Spain 
 


[Verso 5]
 
      G                           C 
Tommy Woods age seventeen died in Cordoba 
                                      F 
With Na Fianna he learned to hold his gun 
                             G 
From Dublin to the Villa del Rio 
                                             C 
Where he fought and died beneath the blazing sun 
 


[Refrão]
 
F 
Viva la Quinta Brigada 
F                 G                     C 
No Pasaran, the pledge that made them fight 
                  C/B            Am 
Adelante is the cry around the hillside 
F          G             C 
Let us all remember them tonight 
 


[Verso 6]
 
              G                 c 
Many Irishmen heard the call of Franco 
                            F 
Joined Hitler and Mussolini too 
                               G 
Propaganda from the pulpit and newspapers 
                             C 
Helped ODuffy to enlist his crew 
 


[Verso 7]
 
    G                                     C 
The word came from Maynooth, support the Nazis 
                        F 
The men of cloth failed again 
                                               G 
When the Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire 
                                       C 
As they sailed beneath the swastika to Spain 
 


[Refrão]
 
F 
Viva la Quinta Brigada 
F                 G                     C 
No Pasaran, the pledge that made them fight 
                  C/B            Am 
Adelante is the cry around the hillside 
F          G             C 
Let us all remember them tonight 
 


[Verso 8]
 
               G                C 
This song is a tribute to Frank Ryan 
                           F 
Kit Conway and Dinny Coady too 
                                   G 
Peter Daly, Charlie Regan and Hugh Bonar 
                                  C 
Though many died I can but name a few 
 


[Verso 9]
 
      G                                C 
Danny Boyle, Blaser-Brown  and Charlie Donnelly 
                                       F 
Liam Tumilson and Jim Straney from the Falls 
                                   G 
Jack Nalty, Tommy Patton and Frank Conroy 
                              C 
Jim Foley, Tony Fox and Dick ONeill 
 


[Refrão]
 
F 
Viva la Quinta Brigada 
F                 G                     C 
No Pasaran, the pledge that made them fight 
                  C/B            Am 
Adelante is the cry around the hillside 
F          G             Am 
Let us all remember them tonight 
F       G      C 
Viva la Quinta Brigada 
F       G      Am 
Viva la Quinta Brigada