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Four years of hard work!

This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!

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Written to remember ‘Tom Jones’, a miner from the North Wales village of Rhosllanerchrugog, who left home in
1937 to travel to Spain to join the International Brigades in the fight against Franco’s fascists. The sole
survivor of his unit at the Battle of Ebro, he was badly wounded, captured and spent months in the infamous
Burgos prison while his friends and family at home believed him dead. Eventually released in 1940, he
returned home to spend the rest of his life until 1990 fighting for socialism within the Welsh trades union
movement. For ever afterwards known as ‘Twm Sbaen’ (Tom Spain), a true hero in every respect.

[Chorus]
G D C
Up from the pit and off across the sea
G D C
My comrades call; I can’t ignore their plea
G D Am C
Put my life on the line and lost my liberty
G D C
I fought for you so your children can be free

[Verse 1]
Am G
Reading the news in a mining town
Am G
See an evil tide bearing down
Am G D
Brave and true, can’t dodge the fight
C G
Leave my family far behind
C G
One thing only on my mind
C G D
Have to stop them dead, the Fascist right

[Verse 2]
Am G
From the coal and smoke and wind and rain
Am G
to the burning heat of the Spanish plain
Am G D
I now stop Fascist tanks in their tracks
C G
They pay with blood for each inch of ground
C G
My comrades, they fall all around
C G D
The final fight; the Ebro at our backs

[Chorus]
G D C
Up from the pit and off across the sea
G D C
My comrades call; I won’t ignore their plea
G D Am C
Put my life on the line and lost my liberty
G D C
I fought for you so your children can be free

[Verse 3]
Am G
Alone, exhausted, won’t give in
Am G
Shot, surrounded, taken in
Am G D
The folks at home all think I’m dead
C G
Left to rot in a Spanish jail
C G
Freed from Burgos on British bail
C G D
Coming home with a story to be spread

[Chorus]
G D C
Up from the pit and off across the sea
G D C
My comrades call; I don’t ignore their plea
G D Am C
Put my life on the line and lost my liberty
G D C
I fought for you so your children can be free

[Instrumental]
Am G Am G
Am G D
C G C G
C G D

[Verse 4]
Am G
I played my part, I paid my dues
Am G
The next time, well, it’s up to you
Am G D
You can turn your face away in vain
C G
But the evil it don’t go away
C G
There’s fascists on the streets today
C G D
The battle must be fought time and again

[Chorus]
G D C
Up from the pit and off across the sea
G D C
Our comrades call; we won’t ignore their plea
G D Am C
Put my life on the line and lost my liberty
G D C
I fought for you; now will you fight for me?
G D C
I fought for you; now will you fight for me?
G D C
I fought for you; now will you fight for me?
G

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