[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