Karaoké Viva la Quinta Brigada Christy Moore

Ten years before I saw the light of mornin' a comradeship of heroes was laid

From every corner of the world came sailin' the Fifth International Brigade

They came to stand beside the Spanish people to try and stem the risin' fascist tide

Franco's allies were the powerful and wealthy

Frank Ryan's men came from the other side

Even the olives were bleedin' 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 blazin' 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

Viva la Quinta Brigada

Viva la Quinta Brigada