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Come Out Ye Black and Tans
Brobdingnagian Bards
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I was born in the Dublin streets
Where the loyal drums do beat
And the loving English feet
They tramp all over us
And every single night
When me dad come home like
He'd invite the neighbours out
With this chorus
Come out you Black and Tan
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wives 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 Killeshandra
Come let me hear you tell
How you slammed the great Parnell
When you fought them well and truly persecuted
Where are the sneers and jeers
That you bravely let us hear
When our heroes of '16 were executed
Come out you Black and Tan
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wives 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 Killeshandra
Oh come tell us how you slew
Them old Arabs two by two
Like the Zulus they had spears and bow and arrows
How bravely you faced one
With your sixteen pounder gun
And you frightened them damn natives to the marrow
Come out you Black and Tan
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wives 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 Killeshandra
Oh the day is coming fast
And the time is here at last
When each yeoman will be cast aside before us
And if there be a need
Then me kids will sing Godspeed
With the first two of Stephen Byrnes' chorus
Come out you Black and Tan
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wives 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 Killeshandra