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Thread #134587   Message #3062442
Posted By: GeoffLawes
28-Dec-10 - 06:33 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: We Are the Fighting Anti-Fascists
Subject: Lyr Add: We Are The Fighting Anti-Fascists
WE ARE THE FIGHTING ANTI-FASCISTS



We are the fighting anti-fascists,

We're members of the International (or Abraham Lincoln ) Brigade,

We are the fighting anti-fascists,

And we'll stay here, until the fascist tomb is laid.

And when we get back home once more,

We'll do, we'll do the same thing there.

And when we get back home once more,

We'll do the same thing there.





These are the words to a song sung by Milton Wolff, once the commanding officer of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion during the Spanish Civil War, as he sings them in the film The Good Fight. You can see and hear him singing the song on part IV of the film as it appears on YouTube Milton Wolff singing at 3.33/8.52 secs on THE GOOD FIGHT video



I used the first line of the song as its title:does anyone know if that is correct? Also if there is any more of the song or who wrote it? I suspect the tune used is one borrowed from a song well known in the thirties: can anyone name that tune? Does anyone know anything more about the song?