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Thread #128093   Message #4087923
Posted By: GeoffLawes
14-Jan-21 - 11:43 AM
Thread Name: Songs in English about the Spanish Civil War
Subject: RE: Songs in English about the Spanish Civil War


Jim Jump, Chair of the IBMT, has emailed to tell me some more about this song which he entitles ‘Song of the Anti-Tanks’ Jim’s lyrics are more extensive than those given above by clicking on 'We Came To Sunny Spain'in the SONGLIST :

We’ve come to sunny Spain
To make the people smile again
And to chase the fascist bastards
O’er the hill and o’er the plain

CHORUS
Oleree… Olero… Oleree oree ore oree ha ha ha ha
Oleree… Olero… Oleree oree ore oree ha ha ha ha

And since we’ve been on the trail
We have made the fascists wail
And call upon the priest
For ‘Santa Agua’ in the pail

Mussolini had some tanks
And Franco thought them swell
But we took our anti-tank guns
And we blew them all to hell

Jim also says “ I got the words of the ‘Song of the Anti-Tanks’ (see below) from Kev Buyers, an IBMT member in Aberdeen, who said they were written by Jack Black. “ Jim says he is trying to get more information about the song . I will post it here if anything new emerges.