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Spanish Bombs Lyrics
Spanish songs in Andalucia
The shooting sites in the days of '39 Oh, please, leave the vendanna open Fredrico Lorca is dead and gone Bullet holes in the cemetery walls The black cars of the Guardia Civil Spanish bombs on the Costa Rica I'm flying in a DC 10 tonight CHORUS Spanish bomb yo te quiero infinito yo te quiero oh mi corazon Spanish bombs yo te quiero infinito yo te quiero oh mi corazon Spanish weeks in my disco casino The freedom fighters died upon the hill They sang the red flag They wore the black one But after they died it was Mockingbird Hill Back home the buses went up in flashes The Irish tomb was drenched in blood Spanish bombs shatter the hotels My senorita's rose was nipped in the bud CHORUS The hillsides ring with "Free the people" Or can I hear the echo from the days of '39? With trenches full of poets The ragged army, fixin' bayonets to fight the other line Spanish bombs rock the province I'm hearing music from another time Spanish bombs on the Costa Brava I'm flying in on a DC 10 tonight Spanish songs in Andalucia, Mandolina, oh mi corazon Spanish songs in Granada, oh mi corazon
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09-21-2002
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10-06-2002
"Spanish songs in Andalucia
The shooting sites in the days of '39 "-----the spanish civil war. 1936-1939. Franco's fascist troops invade spain while an Anarchist and Proletariet spain who just ousted it's monarch tries to keep them away. Franco starts taking spain by force. Andulacia is in spain
"Fredrico Lorca is dead and gone " an andulacian poet. andulacia was the first part of spain to fall to franco. franco then started to cleanse andulacia of leftist advocates. this included lorca who's plays had such themes as democracy.
"The black cars of the Guardia Civil"- black is an anarachist color. the guardia civil were troops protecting spain from the fascists, they were of anarchist/proletariat/communist affiliation.
"I'm flying in a DC 10 tonight " Us gov't plane.
"Spanish bombs, yo tequierro y finito
Yote querda, oh mi corazon" literal spanish translation = spanish bombs oh i want them to end, oh my heart!!!
"The freedom fighters died upon the hill" the freedom fighters were the coalition of the Popular Front including the Socialist UGT, the Trotskyite POUM, the Anarchist CNT and FAI, the Communist PSUC. these were the government of spain under attack. fighting against franco, they most likely died due to overwhelming arms
from the other side.
"They sang the red flag
They wore the black one", the coalition of the spanish government against the threat of franco were a mixture of communists and anarchists. the red flag is a symbol of communism, while the black flag is a symbol of anarchism.
"Back home the buses went up in flashes
The Irish tomb was drenched in blood" the Clash are from the UK. this is relating to the incidents of the IRA (something having to do with pissed-relgious-irish folk).
"The hillsides ring with "Free the people"
Or can I hear the echo from the days of '39?" The spanish people cry for liberation, Franco ruled spain until his death in 1975. Spain was under a fascist dictatorship until then. echos from the start of the spanish civil war, the war that they lost.
"With trenches full of poets" poets fought in the war too. could be a reference to frederico lorca
"The ragged army, fixin' bayonets to fight the other line". the ragged army were the people's militia that formed in towns to combat franco. they had no aid from their own government, they were all using their own guns. so if they broke, they must fix them themselves. they were tired and fatigued, and poor. thus in rags.
"Spanish bombs rock the province". eh, maybe not spanish bombs. but Guernica was in the province. it's a small hamlet bombarded with bombs for no particular reason, only to cripple the morale of spain.
"Spanish bombs on the Costa Brava
I'm flying in on a DC 10 tonight
Spanish songs in Andalucia, Mandolina, oh mi corazon
Spanish songs in Granada, oh mi corazon" a hitlist of bomb sites.
.....I have no life. lol
08-11-2009
09-21-2009
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03-07-2003
ETA yo.
10-19-2009
Furthermore, the song continually refers exclusively to events in Spain from 1936 to 39, not to modern Basque seperatism.
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03-11-2003
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06-26-2003
Just FYI, in the U.S. people organized and funded civillian armies to go help the anarchists because the U.S. government wouldn't.
Unity.
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06-02-2004
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09-27-2004
From "The Spanish Anarchists" by Murray Bookchin:
"The Civil Guard was established in 1844 to deal with banditry in the south...to restore the security of the roads by using the local militia and police would have been useless. Like the bandits, they too had been largely taken over by the caciques [landowners, lawyers and priests who held control of the political life in spanish villages]...it's men were never recruited form the districts in which they served, and they were expressly forbidden to intermarry or establish familiar realtions with the local populations...whatever support revolutionary groups could not mobilize with their literature and oratory, the Guardia eventually gained for them with it's carbines."
The Guardia were not in anyway friends of anarchists. The Guardia are a paramlitary force that aimed at destroying labour militancy, one only has to remember the uprisings in Casa Viejas, Asturia, Jerez, etc. They also helped invent Mano Negro so as to round up anarchists and labour militants, among many other things. I'd also like to point out that the Communists should not be considered anarchist allies, they were (are) backstabbing state-capitalists.
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10-14-2004
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10-26-2004
I feel it deep within my heart and it reminds me of something I'm not sure of what, but it reminds me of something I know I lived... maybe in another life
is it coincidence that I was born on 1975, the year Franco's dictatorship started to end
there was a Mexican band called Tijuana No that made a great version of this song... look for it, a girl sings it and she just makes a very emotional version of this song that hurts when you listen to it
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11-30-2004
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12-02-2004
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12-08-2004
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12-28-2004
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12-30-2004
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12-30-2004
As skunkbythebrook said - the Guardia Civil were military police. Black is also a facist color (Hitlers Blackshirts).
Yeah its not to do with ETA at all. Makes sense as The Clash were anarchists that this is to do with the Spanish Revolution.
As for the lines:
"They sang the red flag
They wore the black one "
This to me means that the fighters were singing the red flag (a popular song in 19th centur - early 20th century Libertarian Socialism - lyrics: http://www.marxists.org/subject/
mayday/music/redflag.html
[remove linebreak after 'subject/']) but were carrying the black flag - i.e. the anarchist flag, as most of the fighters were anarchist!
Theres a good article on the revolution at:
http://www.enrager.net/history/articles/
spanish-revolution-1936/index.php
(remove the line break after 'articles/')
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01-03-2005
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02-03-2005
probably they's relatin the spanish civil war to the 1979 grenada revolution, but that may mean that it wook them negative time to write the song, cuz i dont know what time of year london calling came out, perzactly, but i reckon they wrote this here song while that was goin on
ps blackshirts is italian fascists, not german ones
strange this song aint got no greenshirts, who were the spanish fascists
'you tease, you flirst, you shine all the buttons on your greenshirt'
elvis costello
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02-14-2005
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02-23-2005
"Spanish bombs, yo te quiero A FINITO
Yo TE QUEDA, oh mi corazon"
"Spanish bombs, I want you to end
I have left you, oh my heart."
"Spanish bombs, yo te quiero infinito" doesn't make sense if those two phrases have anything to do with one another; why does he love bombs forever? If he's saying "Spanish bombs" just to plug the title, then "I love you forever, I have left you, oh my heart" is a sensible follow-up, but not otherwise. "I have left you" makes sense in the second line, since he talks about leaving in the previous verse.
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03-06-2005
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03-08-2005
The Irish tomb was drenched in blood" the Clash are from the UK. this is relating to the incidents of the IRA (something having to do with pissed-relgious-irish folk)."
Bit of an ignorant (not to mention offensive) summary of the Northern Irish problem of the 70's. It wasn't religious it was political. It began in the late 60's when Irish Catholics (more an ethnic than a religious term) started a peaceful campaign to secure equal civil rights to the protestant population. Previously a catholic vote was worth only half a protestant one and catholics weren't allowed seats in the Northern Irish parliament. The protests led to a violent reaction from the working class loyalist areas. The British army, sent in to control the situation, and understanding little about Irish affairs, were seen to take the side of the loyalists. the population became radicalised and the bloody IRA (a paramillitary organisation that sought a united Irish republic and which had long been dormant before the start of the troubles) swelled with new angry young members. A horrible bombing campaign followed which frequently stretched to London.
I think the clash's reference to it here is more a call to watch the situation carefully. Up to now the British Army had handled it disastroulsy exacerbating the problem more than helping it (Bloody Sunday). I also think that ETA is implicitly present within the song. Perhaps Strummer saw some relevance in the that period in Spanish history and the contemporary issue of violent paramilitarianism that was growing in different areas of Europe. "Can I hear the echo from the days of 39".
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04-22-2005
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06-09-2005
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06-18-2005
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07-06-2005
The reference to flying in on a DC10 is probably not about the US gov't at all, but about foreigners rallying to the cause of the socialist alliance... basically a whole load of idealists came over to fight the fascists. George Orwell and Laurie Lee are a couple of poets from England who went along.
Federico Lorca lived near Granada, I think he lived in the hills around there. The hilly Alpujarras region near Granada has a history of revoluts, from the Moorish uprising in the 16th century under Philip II to the 79 Greanda revolution.
There probably are some references to Basque seperatism, but it's not true to my knowledge that ETA are active in the South of Spain... in the South of the Basque region they certainly are, but this is in the North of Spain. Barcelona and particularly San Sebastian are places where tehre've been ETA bombings.
I'm wondering whether "they sang the red flag they wore the black one" is actually supposed to criticse the communists. Maybe not. But certainly the communists were generally a bunch of backstabbers in the Spanish civil war, they were shipped out from and totally attached to Russia's Stalinism. They decimated the otehr parties fighting fascism in a series of purges.
If this is a lonve song it's not a bout a woman but about nationalism, or perhaps just love of peace. Reading the lyrics in the album they do seem to be asaebassist has them down, and this does kinda translate to wanting the bombs to end.
I'd neevr noticed the references to the IRA but this is a good point, cheers.
Anyway whatever this song is about... and there are lots of cryptic lines like the one about "my disco casino... it's bloody brilliant.
09-22-2009
It cannot be about either: the DC-10 did not enter service until 1971, long after the Spanish Civil War was over, and indeed, after Franco started preparing for the power transition anticipated upon his death, which occurred in 1975. The line can only refer to a flight more-or-less contemporary with the song being written.
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