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05 Feb 12 - 02:37 PM (#3302642) Subject: Origins: No Pasaran:Gary Kaye version & original From: GeoffLawes In the MudcatThread Songs Written In English About The Spanish Civil War I have listed a song called No Pasaran by Gary Kaye, which you can hear using this link Gary Kaye NO PASARAN on YouTube The lyrics of the Gary Kaye song refer to the Spanish Civil War but it is clear from the later verses that this song is of relatively recent composition. However, I have heard a recording of a song made in the 1970's which uses the same tune. Does anyone know the original version of the song. The tune is also the tune used in this song on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFa0LpT2OHU by a Russian group which ends their video by singing a version of the SCW song Los Quatros Generales I suspect it was originally a Russian song from the Soviet era. No Pasaran by Gary Kaye On Cable Street where comrades meet They stopped the fascists in their tracks As side by side they stood with pride They turned the black shirt bastards back Then down in Spain they felt the pain Those heroes fought and there they fell With Stalin's help a blow was dealt They damned the fascists into hell No pasaran No pasaran We will not yield these streets today No pasaran No pasaran The people here will have their say People said no, rivers won't flow The blood will not spill in our land So Powell's words stopped being heard As decent people took a stand Monsieur Le Pen he tried again To be a fascist President People of France they took their chance And knocked him down with common sense No pasaran No pasaran We will not yield these streets today No pasaran No pasaran The people here will have their say The BNP spread their disease And dress it up as politics We are not fooled we won't be ruled By those who stand there spouting shit This war's not won it's just begun For every woman, child and man So don't give in 'cos we can win If we cry out no pasaran No pasaran No pasaran We will not yield these streets today No pasaran No pasaran The people here will have their say |
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05 Feb 12 - 03:23 PM (#3302666) Subject: RE: Origins: No Pasaran:Gary Kaye version & original From: Mick Pearce (MCP) Geoff the tune is from the song Bella Ciao; WWII Italian partisan song. If you do a search here for that, I think you'll find several threads about the song (I first heard it as a German version! Have a look at the Wikipedia article on the song and you'll see it's been used a lot). Mick |
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05 Feb 12 - 03:32 PM (#3302675) Subject: RE: Origins: No Pasaran:Gary Kaye version & original From: Mick Pearce (MCP) That wikipedia article also mentions a possible origin for the Bella Ciao tune in an early 20th century klezmer recording Mishka Ziganoff - Oi oi di Koilen. Certainly that tune start off the same way, but it's not the only theory on the tune's origin. Mick |
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05 Feb 12 - 08:42 PM (#3302812) Subject: RE: Origins: No Pasaran:Gary Kaye version & original From: GeoffLawes Thank you very much for your help Mick. What an extraordinary number of songs written to the same tune. I was mistaken in thinking that the group who recorded the song in my second link are Russian. They are called boikot and are Spanish. |