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Blood Runs Red

from NO PASARAN! by Joe Solo

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Based on the true story of Penny Feiwel, a young nurse who volunteered for Spain. After months of fighting to keep men of all nationalities alive with only the most basic of equipment returned to England to plead for medical supplies. At a meeting she was heckled by a man suggesting that we shouldn't be helping Spain as she was a Socialist state, "Spain is Red!!!" he shouted......the song is based on her response as viewed through the eyes of a man in attendance.

This song features the brilliant Rebekah Findlay on violin.

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It was a dusty hall on the Empire Lane
She was a nurse back, begging help for Spain
"Spain is Red!" came a shout from one side
"Yes Spain IS Red, Spain is red," she cried.

"Spain is red, Spain is red
Red with the blood of the dying and the dead
And I've treated every nationality" she said
"And when their blood runs, well their blood runs red."

"I've been elbow deep in a stranger's blood
Fought flies from wounds, feet deep in mud
They took a little part of me when they died
But I didn't want it on my gravestone that I never tried."

She was the bravest soul that I ever saw
Just a few days home and then back to war
I see her in my sleep wading through the dead
While an ill wind whispers every word she said....

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from NO PASARAN!, released January 1, 2014
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Joe Solo Scarborough, UK

Joe Solo is an award-winning musician, writer, poet, activist, broadcaster and washing machine engineer from Scarborough.

Live he has an ever growing reputation as both a performer and raconteur, being thought-provoking, comical and punch-the-air political often in the same breath.

He is not an artist you forget in a hurry.
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