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Thread #141600   Message #3260016
Posted By: GeoffLawes
19-Nov-11 - 01:17 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Owt for Nowt (John Watt)
Subject: Lyr Add: OWT FOR NOWT (John Watt)
Can anyone complete the chorus in its Spanish version at the end of Johnn Watts Spanish Civil War Song Owt For Nowt?
I have, below, put the English lyrics which I can identify from his recording Heroes, a Neon/Watt production issued by The Tradition Bearers, LTCD3001, 2000, downloadable at www.go2neon.com

The song has also been recorded by Jim Bainbridge
on his "Lights on the River" CD.
I am collecting the words for another thread Here
called Songs in English about the Spanish Civil War but that is now too extensive to be a good place to harvest information from Mudcat's 'passing trade'.

OWT FOR NOWT
by John Watt


When you're lounging on the beaches of Espagna's sunny shore,
And the hawkers group like leeches ' helados, por favour?',
Remember Franco's icy reign as you ride on RENFE's rails,
Think on the terror and the pain that are locked in Spanish goals.

CHORUS
Espagna, you bled from Bilboa to Seville,
While the ghosts of your dead,
Oh they walk the beaches still,
So while you're busy getting laid and you're raising merry hell,
Think on what the price was paid for your dirt cheap San Miguel

A holiday for Adolph's plane's, with Spain the practice course,
While Uncle Joe he pullled the reins when he backed the losing horse,
As all you left Madrid to bleed as you watched the game being played,
The backbone of Espagna's need International Brigade.

Costa Brava , costa plenty, more than you will ever know.
And Antar San Vincente , where all the tourists go,
No-one gives you owt for nowt, when you think that you've got friends,
That Espaagna soon found out, each one pursues his ends.

Espagna de sangraste, Bilbao a Sevilla,
   Mientras ---?--- las fantasmas
Andan por la playa
Cuando tu estas borracho
A la noche --?-- al hotel
--?- miu grande
---?--- San Miguel.

Thanks, Geoff