Lorca's Novena

The song "Lorca's Novena" is from The Pogues 5th full length album Hell's Ditch released in 1990. It draws on Shane MacGowan's affinity for Spain (particularly Almería, which he discovered years earlier when filming Straight to Hell), and one of its famous poets, Federico García Lorca. The song tells of the poet's murder by Francisco Franco's Nationalist supporters in the Spanish Civil War, and how his body, never having been recovered, was said to have walked away. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.