[Verse]
Ten years before I saw the light of morning,
A comradeship of heroes was laid,
From every corner of the world came sailing,
The Fifteenth International Brigade.

They came to stand beside the Spanish people,
To try and stem the rising fascist tide,
Franco's allies were the powerful and the 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 of evil,
And our Brotherhood against that fascist clan. (Viva!)

[Chorus]
Viva la Quinta Brigada,
"No Pasarán!" The pledge that made them fight,
"Adelante!" Is the cry along the hillside,
Oh, let us all remember them tonight.

[Verse]
Bob Hilliard was a Church of Ireland pastor,
From Killarney across the Pyrenees he came,
From Derry came a brave young Christian Brother,
And side by side we fought and died in Spain.

Tommy Woods age seventeen died in Córdoba,
With Na Fianna he learned to hold a gun,
From Derry to the Villa del Rio,
Where he fought and died beneath the blazing sun. (Viva!)

[Chorus]
Viva la Quinta Brigada,
"No Pasarán!" The pledge that made them fight,
"Adelante!" Is the cry along the hillside,
Oh, let us all remember them tonight.

[Verse]
And many Irishmen they heard the call of Franco, (Fuck Franco!)
They joined Hitler and Mussolini too, (Fuck Mussolini!)
Propaganda from the pulpit and newspapers,
Helped O'Duffy to enlist a fusion crew.

And the word came from the Maynooth, "Support those Nazis", (Fuck the Nazis!)
The men of cloth they'd failed us yet again,
As the bigot blessed his Blueshirts in Dún Laoghaire,
And they sailed beneath the swastika to Spain. (Viva!)

[Chorus]
Viva la Quinta Brigada,
"No Pasarán!" The pledge that made them fight,
"Adelante!" Is the cry along the hillside,
Oh, let us all remember them tonight.

[Verse]
This song it is a tribute to Frank Ryan,
Kit Conway and Dinny Coady too,
Peter Daly, Charlie Regan and Hugh Bonar,
Though but many died, we could, but name a few.

Blaser-Brown, Danny Boyle and Charlie Donnelly,
Liam Tumilson and Jim Straney from Short Strand,
Jack Nalty, Tommy Patton and Frank Conroy,
Jim Foley, Tony Fox and Dick O'Neill.

[Chorus]
Viva la Quinta Brigada,
"No Pasarán!" The pledge that made them fight,
"Adelante!" Is the cry along the hillside,
Oh, let us all remember them tonight.

[Outro]
Viva la Quinta Brigada,
Viva la Quinta Brigada,
Viva la Quinta Brigada,
Let us all remember them tonight.