Lyrics Come out Ye Black and Tans - The Wolfe Tones

I was born on a Dublin street
Where the Royal drums do beat
And the loving English feet
They walked all over us
And every single night
When me da would come home tight
He'd invite the neighbours out with this chorus

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 ould Arabs two by two
Like Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows
How brave you faced one
With your 16-pounder gun
And you frightened them damned natives to the marrow

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 let us 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 leaders of '16 were executed?

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 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