No need to write much about today's song as I featured London band Zatopeks (https://www.facebook.com/zatopeksband) last month (https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2024/06/zatopeks-fine-sunny-day.html).
I just wanted to let you know that the new album, Loitering And Sauntering, is out now and I'd say it's probably my favourite release of the year so far so go snap it up, you won't regret it : https://zatopeks.bandcamp.com/album/loitering-and-sauntering
I played this song on last night's Just Some Punk Songs show and the chatroom loved it so I'll highlight it again here. It's a rejigged version of Woody Guthrie's Red River Valley, leaning more lyrically to the version from 1938 by Alex McDade, of the British Battalion, XV International Brigade which was published in The Book of the XV International Brigade by the Commissariat of War, Madrid. It's called Jarama Valley...
There’s a valley in Spain called Jarama
It’s a place we all know so well
It was there that we fought against the fascists
We saw that peaceful valley turn to hell
We signed up with the Lincoln Battalion
We’re proud of the fight that we made
And we know that you people of the valley
Will remember our Lincoln Brigade
From this valley they say we are going
But don’t hasten to bid us adieu
Even though we lost the battle at Jarama
We’ll set this valley free before we’re through
You will never find peace with these fascists
You’ll never find friends such as we
So remember our Lincoln Battalion
The people that’ll set this valley free
Now all of this world is like Jarama
So green, and so bright, and so fair
No fascists will live in our valleys
Or breathe in our new freedom’s air
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