[Verse 1]
Who will call the meetings now?
And who will take the chair?
And who will call us out on strike
To demand our equal share?
Donny, dear old Donny
In Belfast won't remain
For he's gone to fight the fascists
In the civil war in Spain
[Verse 2]
Hitler sent the bombers
Mussolini sent big guns
And while the Church sent curses
On her daughters and her son's
The people armed with sticks and stones
Against the tanks that came
But they drove back Franco's armies
From the cities once again
[Verse 3]
They came from many countries
To fight and save Madrid
And no one knows just how they held
But the whole world knows that they did
They fought to make us equal
To win back the rich man's gains
But they died in muddy trenches
In the Civil War in Spain
[Verse 4]
You fought well at [Torama?]
In [?] as well
And the plains of old [?]
Sure they blew ya all to Hell
You crossed the [?] river
Your blood the banks did stain
Ireland lost her fighting men
At the Civl War in Spain
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 5]
The fascist bullets won't permit
Our Danny to return
This fateful loss, wee Belfast fog
Will never cease to mourn
For her fought for the Connolly Column
In the brave 15th Brigade
Danny died for freedom
In the Civil War in Spain
[Verse 6]
They fought to make us equal
To win back the rich man's gains
But they died in muddy trenches
In the Civil War in Spain