COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS

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

And those loving English feet they walked all over us

And every single night when me father‘d come home tight 

He'd invite our neighbors outside with this chorus 

REFRAIN:

Oh, 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 in Killeshandra

 

 

Come let me hear you tell, how you slandered great Parnell

When you thought him well and truly persecuted

Where are the sneers and jeers that you loudly let us hear

When our heroes of sixteen were executed

 

REFRAIN

Oh, 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 in Killeshandra

 

Now the time is coming fast and the time is here at last

When each English yeoman he will run before us

And if there be a need then our kids will say, "Godspeed!"

With a verse or two of singing this fine chorus

 

REFRAIN

Oh, 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 in Killeshandra