Songs of the Lincoln Brigade

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Songs of the Lincoln Brigade

Studio album by Baldwin 'Butch' Hawes, Bess Lomax Hawes, Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer.
Released	1940
Genre	Folk
Length	15:05
Label	Asch
Producer	Moses Asch

Songs of the Lincoln Brigade is a 1940 album by several members of the Almanac Singers: Baldwin 'Butch' Hawes, Bess Lomax Hawes and Pete Seeger, along with Tom Glazer.^[1] The album presents "the songs of the men who left home and safety behind them in 1937 to fight Fascism" in Spain.

Track listing

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No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Jarama Valley"	Alec McDade	2:47
2.	"Cookhouse: The Young Man From Alcalá"	Leonard P. Breedlove, Andrew Young	2:37
3.	"Quartermaster Song"	Lewis E. Jones	2:02
4.	"Viva La Quince Brigada (Long Live the 15th Brigade)"		2:45
5.	"El Quinto Regimiento (The Fifth Regiment)"		2:18
6.	"Si Me Quieres Escribir (If You Want to Write to Me)"		2:36

References

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^ "Songs of the Spanish Civil War Part 1" (PDF). Smithsonian Folkways. 2014. Retrieved 22 September 2021.

v t e Pete Seeger
Studio albums	American Folk Songs for Children American Industrial Ballads American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 2 Gazette, Vol. 1 Sleep-Time: Songs & Stories God Bless the Grass Dangerous Songs!? Rainbow Race At 89 Pete Remembers Woody
Live albums	We Shall Overcome
Compilations	Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes (Little & Big) If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle
Songs	"The Bells of Rhymney" "Gotta Travel On" "If I Had a Hammer" "If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus" "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" "Little Boxes" "My Rainbow Race" "Pittsburgh Town" "Turn! Turn! Turn!" "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy "We Shall Overcome" "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" "God's Counting on Me, God's Counting on You"
Almanac Singers	Songs for John Doe Talking Union Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Ballads Sod Buster Ballads Songs of the Lincoln Battalion Dear Mr. President
The Weavers	The Weavers at Carnegie Hall The Weavers at Carnegie Hall Vol. 2 The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time!
Other	Union Boys Precious Friend (with Arlo Guthrie)
Related	Discography People's Songs Rainbow Quest Sing Out! Pete Seeger: The Power of Song Hudson River Sloop Clearwater The Great Hudson River Revival We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Family	Toshi Seeger (wife) Mika Seeger (daughter) Tao Rodríguez-Seeger (grandson) Charles Seeger (father) Ruth Crawford Seeger (stepmother) Mike Seeger (half-brother) Peggy Seeger (half-sister) Alan Seeger (uncle) Ewan MacColl (brother-in-law) John Cohen (brother-in-law) Kirsty MacColl (stepniece)

v t e XV International Brigade – Abraham Lincoln
Commanders	János Gálicz (Jan–Feb 1937) Vladimir Ćopić (Feb–Jul 1937) Klaus Becker (Jul–Aug 1937) Vladimir Ćopić (Aug 1937–Mar 1938) Robert Hale Merriman (Mar–Apr 1938) Vladimir Ćopić (Apr–May 1938) José Antonio Valledor Álvarez (May–Sep 1938)
Battalions	British Battalion Lincoln Battalion (incl. American Medical Bureau & Connolly Column) Dimitrov Battalion Sixth of February Battalion 24 Battalion Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion Washington Battalion
People	William Aalto Bernard Ades Bill Alexander Edward K. Barsky James Walker Benét Alvah Bessie Delmer Berg Herman Bottcher Edward A. Carter Jr. Christopher Caudwell Lewis Clive Morris Cohen Fred Copeman John Cornford Jock Cunningham Peter Daly Peko Dapčević Carmelo Delgado Delgado Charles Donnelly Bob Doyle Petar Drapšin Frank Edwards Leo Eloesser Moe Fishman Hugh Garner John Gates David Guest Jason Gurney William Herrick Robert Hilliard Jack Jones Salaria Kea Robert Klonsky Oliver Law Laurie Lee Maurice Levitas Yank Levy Matti Mattson Alex McDade Paddy Roe McLaughlin Kosta Nađ Conlon Nancarrow George Nathan Steve Nelson Paddy O'Daire John O'Reilly Michael O'Riordan Thomas Patten Will Paynter Koča Popović Harry Wayland Randall Patrick Read Esmond Romilly Frank Ryan Alfred Sherman George Sossenko Stephen Spender Wally Tapsell Robert G. Thompson Tom Wintringham Milton Wolff
Political parties	Communist Party USA Communist Party of Great Britain Communist Party of Canada Communist Party of Ireland Republican Congress Communist Party of Yugoslavia Communist Party of Cuba
Related	International Brigades Communist International Yankee Squadron International Brigade Memorial Trust Jarama Valley Songs of the Lincoln Battalion Viva la Quinta Brigada Jewish volunteers Yugoslav volunteers Irish volunteers Yugoslav Partisans Atomic spies Smith Act

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