Spanish Bombs
(Joe Strummer)
Spanish songs in Andalucia
The shooting sites in the days of '39
Oh, please leave the vendana open
Fedrico Lorca is dead and gone
Bullet holes in the cemetery walls
The black cars of the Guardia Civil
Spanish bombs on the Costa Rica
I'm flying in a DC 10 tonight
Spanish bombs, yo te quiero y finito
Yo te querda, oh mi corazon
Spanish bombs, yo te quiero y finito
Yo te querda, oh mi corazon
Spanish weeks in my disco casino
The freedom fighters died upon the hill
They sang the red flag, they wore the black one
But after they died it was Mockingbird Hill
Back home the buses went up in flashes
The Irish tomb was drenched in blood
Spanish bombs shattered the hotels
My senorita's rose was nipped in the bud
Spanish bombs, yo te quiero y finito
Yo te querda, oh mi corazon
Spanish bombs, yo te quiero y finito
Yo te querda, oh mi corazon
The hillsides ring with "Free the people"
Or can I hear the echo from the days of '39?
With trenches full of poets, the ragged army
Fixin' bayonets to fight the other line
Spanish bombs rock the province
I'm hearing music from another time
Spanish bombs on the Costa Brava
I'm flying in on a DC 10 tonight
Spanish songs in Andalucia,
Mandolina, oh mi corazon
Spanish songs in Granada,
Oh mi corazon
Oh mi corazon
Oh mi corazon
7 comments:
Hey dude. You having a deep and darkful time again? Somehow we have to find balance. There is horror, insanity, cruelty and destruction everywhere we turn. Likewise there is beauty, compassion, truth and life in equal measure. That is the paradox.
Big wraparound hugs.
Yeah, I am. Thanks for the support and the hugs. I know everything everybody tells me but sometimes it doesn't matter what you do, you just fall apart. I'm holding together with some superglue but life is hard when you live in your head.
I NEED to get out more and do physical things which will allow me to react and not think. God bless the child that can hold his own - Nature the one that can freeze the drone, leave it alone - for now I gotta ride out the rain; then I'll get myself gone maybe along with the pain.
Haha. Bringing it to you rap style yo. Word up. Props. F'rilla.
Love makes Peace. Greed makes War. All we need is Love.
Yes indeedy. Anyone care to comment on the Spanish Civil War theme that is actually the subject of this post?
Not that it really needs commenting. Images can be enough. Substitute similar propaganda and photos from any war.
ORGANIZED WAR MUST END.
You said it. No need for further comment.
Sorry, I don't want to read about wars. It's one reason I don't watch the news.
OK, I’ll bite. But I’m not sure where. I was once asked by some friends to give a succinct 10-minute précis of why the Spanish Civil War occurred. I tried my best but the shortest version I could manage was 35 minutes long.
I could go on for pages but I thought I’d just add a few little snippets of information that always touch or anger me in one way or another.
The British Government insisted on a pact of non-intervention during the Civil War. This was flaunted most obviously by Germany and Italy – Italian planes flew the main body of the Nationalist troops over from Spanish protectorates in Morocco, if this hadn’t happened then the uprising may have gone no further. The Germans used Spain as a practice ground for the First World War. While Chamberlain was foolishly trying to court Hitler, he was carpet bombing the Basque Country – see Picasso’s Guernica, (http://terresdefemmes.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/guernica.jpg) although pictures on the internet/in a book don’t do it justice. Non-intervention also denied the Republican government their legal right to buy arms abroad, the British used the pact to force France not to aid the Republicans (although they sneaked a few planes over the Pyrenees, but nothing that made any difference) for fear of losing British support should it come to war with Germany. The pact also had advantages for Britain whose business interests in Spain would be best looked after by a Nationalist victory.
‘Was this then what I’d come for, and all my journey had meant – to smudge out the life of an unknown young man in a blur of panic which in no way could affect victory or defeat?’ Laurie Lee, A Moment of War. Lee’s prose is simple but so beautiful. His As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning should be read before to get the full picture. Orwell’s Hommage to Catalonia, also shows the horrors and follies of the war. His experiences in Spain caused his disillusionment with communism and was a defining influence on the writing of Animal Farm. The Russians were the main source of aid to the Republic and sent many soldiers and generals to oversee the fighting. The revolution that occurred during the start of the Civil War was, ironically, crushed by Stalin who feared losing support from the British against Nazi Germany.
The funeral cortege of the Anarchist Buenaventurra Durruti, who died fighting in November 1936, wound its way thought Barcelona to Montjuich ceremony followed by over 250,000 people.
When Franco died in 1975 not a bottle of cava was left on the shelves in the entire city of Barcelona.
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