Rise Again
Struggle
p. 258
First Line: 
Si me quieres escribir ya sabes mi paradero

Artist & Tune

Reference

Culture: 
Spanish

About the Song

About Pete Seeger's recording: 

Six Songs for Democracy was originally recorded in Spain in June 1938 during an air raid on Barcelona. One of the records bore a sticker reading: “The defective impression of this record is due to interruptions of electric current during an air raid.” The soloist and organizer of this recording was the great German working-class tenor Ernst Busch, backed by a chorus of members of the Thäelmann Battalion, the war’s German volunteers. It was released in the United States by Keynote Recordings in 1940, to great success.

Moses Asch believed that an American recording of Spanish Civil War songs could also do well. He contacted Pete Seeger and asked him to put a group together. On furlough from the army one weekend in 1943 or 1944, Seeger gathered fellow folk singers Tom Glazer, Baldwin (Butch) Hawes, and Bess Lomax Hawes to record three 78s. The four singers rehearsed on Saturday and recorded on Sunday. Asch released the tracks as Songs of the Lincoln Brigade. Folkways Records combined the two projects and re-released them together in 1961 as Songs of the Spanish Civil War Volume 1 (FH5436), to mark the 25th anniversary of the start of the war.

This CD was in turn re-released in 2014 as part of a double CD "Songs of the Spanish Civil War" that includes both Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 of the original Folkways Recordings. 

Wikipedia Entry

Translation(s)

Translation: 

IF YOU WANT TO WRITE TO ME

If you want to write to me, you know my whereabouts,
On the Gandesa front, first line of fire,
On the Gandesa front, first line of fire,

If you want to eat well, cheap and correctly,
On the Gandesa front, they have an inn there,
On the Gandesa front, they have an inn there.

In the inn entrance, there's a Moor named Mohammed
Who tells you "Come in, come in, what do you want to eat?
Who tells you "Come in, come in, what do you want to eat?

The first course they give you is armor piercing shells,
The second course is shrapnel to remember memories,
The second course is shrapnel to remember memories