Can anyone who knows about Spanish folk music tell me whether there was a version of the traditional Ay Carmela! song about the FIFTEENTH International Brigade that was actually sung DURING the Spanish Civil War. There is great confusion and masses of speculation surrounding this song on Mudcat and in other places. I don't want to add to the confusion with this new post and I don't want to be rude, but anything about the completely different Christy Moore song with the same title,VIVA LA QUINCA BRIGADA,is not relevent and has many Mudcat threads devoted to it already.

From what I have so far read on the song/s, I know that there was a version of the Ay Carmela! song written and sung in 1936 in praise of the Fifth ( Quinta) Brigade. I know that since the war finished a song in praise of the Fifteenth (Quinca) Brigade has been sung, somtimes in connection with International Brigade re-unions. The question is 'Was VIVA LA QUINCA BRIGADA sung while the Spanish Civil war was still being fought or was it a song adapted and adopted after the war?
Regards, Geoff