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Thread #128093   Message #2873217
Posted By: mikesamwild
27-Mar-10 - 09:51 AM
Thread Name: Songs in English about the Spanish Civil War
Subject: RE: Songs in English about the Spanish Civil War
BRIGADERS SINGING AT SAM WILD'S FUNERAL

I've got the Topic EP with the Spanish one on. We played it at my Dad's funeral in Sheffield, along with England Arise by Edward Carpenter.

After the funeral we went with those IBrs who'd made it to the funeral and had a few jars and a wake and a singsong at the Royal Standard, a nice Ward's house in those days. I am wracking my memory for some of the songs they sang but itwas a strange day.

Bob Cooney was not quite with it at the time sadly and goodness knows how he got there but he did and he declaimed some of his poems and sang The Old Maid in the Garret, one of my Dad's favourites.