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"Si me quieres escribir" (English: "If You Want to Write to Me"), also known as "Ya sabes mi paradero" ("You Know Where I Am Posted") and "El frente de Gandesa" (The Gandesa Front), is one of the most famous songs of the Spanish Republican troops during the Spanish Civil War. [1]
During the Spanish Civil War, in common with many older folk songs, the melody was reused with new lyrics by the Republican side, in various versions (El Ejército del Ebro, El paso del Ebro, ¡Ay, Carmela!, ¡Ay, Manuela!, Rumba la Rumba, and Viva la XV Brigada). A less well-known version was also coined by Nationalists (El Rîo del Nervión).
Cantos nacionales ("national songs") were accorded special honors. [4] [5] Oriamendi - Carlist anthem; Cara al Sol - Falangist anthem; Cancion del Legionario - Song of the Spanish Legion; Camisa Azul - Falangist Song; Ya Hemos Pasao - Celia Gamez; Falangista Soy - Falangist Song; Cálzame las Alpargatas - Carlist Song; Arriba España - Italian ...
The Decree 226/1937 [1] of the Burgos Junta declared the Marcha Granadera as the Spanish anthem. It also recognizes as cantos nacionales the anthems of Falange Española ( Cara al Sol ), Carlism ( Oriamendi ) and the Spanish Legion ( Novio de la muerte ) ordering that they should be listened to standing in homage to the Fatherland and the fallen.
Despite its popularity in Catalonia [6] and Galicia, the Salve Marinera has only a Castilian Spanish version; it does not exist in any of the other languages of Spain. The present music accompanying the hymn was adapted in 1942 by Jesús Montalbán Vizcón, then director of the Spanish Navy's training facilities' musical band (Banda de Música de la Escuela Naval).
Pages in category "Songs of the Spanish Civil War" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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The article says “The tune which he used was barely similar to the version of Viva la Quince Brigada recorded by Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers in the early 1940s, as Moore's song is in a mayor key (C) and Seeger's, which is just a cover from the 19th century Spanish revolutionary song "Ay, Carmela", is in a minor key.”