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"Love Letter From Spain"

Lincoln Battalion
International Brigade
Old cold rainy day, 1937

Sweetie listen:
I’m writin’ this
In a front-line trench
Somewhere in Spain.
I’m sittin’ in a dugout
Out of the mud and rain.

I can hear the bullets whining.
Sometimes I hear ‘em crack.
But if they hit our dugout
They just smack a sand sack.

I’m thinkin’ about you, baby,
Way down in Alabam.
Are you thinkin’ about me, honey,
Over here where I go!

I hope you’re, sugar,
And I want you to know
That I’m crazy about you, baby,
No matter where I go.

Just now I’m goin;
To take a Fascist town.
Fascists is Jim Crow peoples, honey-
And here we shoot ‘em down