Come out Ye Black and Tans lyrics

I was born on a Dublin street where the Royal drums do beat

The loving English feet they walked all over us

And every single night when me da' would come home tight

He'd invite the neighbors outside with this chorus:

Come out you black and tans

Come out and fight me like a man

Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders

Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away

From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra

Come let us hear you tell

How you slandered great Pernell

When you tought him well and truly persecuted

Where are the sneers and jeers

That you loundlylet us hear

When our leaders of sixteen were executed

Come out you black and tans

Come out and fight me like a man

Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders

Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away

From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra

Come tell us how you slew

Them old Arabs two by two

Like the Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows

How you bravely face one with your sixteen pounder gun

And you frightened them damn natives to the marrow

Come out you black and tans

Come out and fight me like a man

Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders

Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away

From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra

The time is coming fast

And I think this day is near

When each seonin traitor he will run before us

And if there be a need

Well our kids wil say "Godspeed!"

With a verse or two of singing this fine chorus:

Come out you black and tans

Come out and fight me like a man

Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders

Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away

From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra

Come out you black and tans

Come out and fight me like a man

Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders

Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away

From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra

• Artist:Dominic Behan