The Last Lincoln Veteran - David Rovics

[00:00.000] 作曲 : David Stefan Rovics
[00:06.06]They were old when I was young
[00:09.29]Now they're all but passed away
[00:13.08]Now it's just a second hand
[00:16.56]Memory of the day
[00:19.31]When from all around the world
[00:23.00]They sailed off to Spain
[00:26.95]To fight against the fascists
[00:29.60]Where so many men were slain
[00:33.20]Who will recall the days
[00:36.50]When they all stood side by side
[00:40.00]Now that the last Lincoln Veteran died
[00:46.80]Beside Martin Luther King
[00:50.00]Or in a Veterans Parade
[00:53.80]You could see the men who made the journey
[00:57.00]To join the Fifteenth Brigade
[01:00.91]When men of many nations
[01:03.90]Of most every creed and hue
[01:08.19]Catholics and Protestants
[01:11.71]Atheists and Jews
[01:14.82]Joined together in the trenches
[01:18.22]To turn back the fascist tide
[01:21.75]Now that the last Lincoln Veteran died
[01:29.10]The working class of many nations
[01:32.39]Joined in a desperate bid
[01:35.80]With what weapons they could find
[01:39.28]They fought to save Madrid
[01:43.00]From Brussels and Berlin
[01:46.29]Galway and London town
[01:49.80]Who will recall the Brigadistas
[01:53.20]Who tried to take the fascists down
[01:56.70]There beside the Spanish people
[02:00.20]Even the figs and olives cried
[02:03.80]Now that the last Lincoln Veteran died
[02:52.70]The Republic had the people
[02:55.50]But the fascists had the tanks
[02:59.30]
[03:02.41]Deserve only some of Franco's thanks
[03:06.57]'Cause the fuel to move the armor
[03:09.62]Came from the USA
[03:12.92]And the men that they gunned down
[03:16.36]Were from New York and Frisco Bay
[03:19.95]Uncle Sam said he was neutral
[03:23.61]Who will remember how he lied
[03:26.90]Now that the last Lincoln Veteran died
[03:34.42]They say people get conservative
[03:38.19]The older that they age
[03:41.61]They say that being radical
[03:45.18]Is just a youthful faith
[03:48.09]But the finest communist I've known
[03:52.70]lived to 95
[03:55.73]And he spent his whole life striving
[03:59.16]For humanity to thrive
[04:02.75]To forget these fallen heroes
[04:06.00]Is something I cannot abide
[04:09.61]Now that the last Lincoln Veteran died
[04:16.62]Now that the last Lincoln Veteran died
[04:27.00]There's a valley in Spain called Jarama
[04:33.60]It's a place that we all know so well
[04:40.55]It was there that we gave of our manhood
[04:47.90]Where so many of our brave comrades fell