Black 'n' Tans Lyrics

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

And the loving English feet they walked all over us

And every single night when mi father came home tight

He'd invite the neighbours outside with this chorus

Oh, come out ye' black and tans

Come out and fight me like a man

Show your wife how you got medals down in Flanders

Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away

From the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra

Come let us hear you tell

How you slandered great Parnell

When you fought them well and truly persecuted

Where are the smears and jeers

That you bravery let us hear

When our leaders of sixteen were executed

Oh, come out ye' 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 brave Arabs two by two

Like Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows

How you'd slew each one

With your sixteen pounder gun

And you frightened them pour damn natives to their marrow

Oh, come out ye' black and tans

Come out and fight me like a man

Show your wife how you got medals down in Flanders

Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away

From the green and lovely lanes if Killashandra

Oh, come out ye' black and tans

Come out and fight me like a man

Show your wife how you got medals down in Flanders

Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away

From the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra

Oh, come out ye' black and tans

Come out and fight me like a man

Show your wife how you got medals down in Flanders

Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away

From the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra