
Date of issue: 31.12.2012
Song language: English
Come out Ye Black & Tans |
I was born on a Dublin street where the Royal drums did beat, |
And the loving English feet walked all over us; |
And every single night, when me Da would come home tight, |
He’d invite the neighbours outside with this; |
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 I.R.A. |
made you run like hell away |
From the green and lovely lanes in Killeshandra. |
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 lovely let us hear, |
When our heroes of sixteen were executed. |
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 I.R.A. |
made you run like hell away |
From the green and lovely lanes in Killeshandra. |
Come, tell us how you slew |
Them ol' Arabs two by two; |
Like the Zulus, they had spears and bows and arrows; |
How you bravely faced each one, |
With your sixteen pounder gun, |
And you frightened them poor natives to their marrow. |
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 I.R.A. |
made you run like hell away |
From the green and lovely lanes in Killeshandra. |
Ah, the time is coming fast |
And I think those days are here, |
When those English johnnies heels 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. |
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; |
Oh and how the I.R.A. |
made you run like hell away |
From the green and lovely lanes in Killeshandra. |
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; |
Oh and how the I.R.A. |
made you run like hell away |
From the green and lovely lanes in Killeshandra. |
Name | Year |
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Come out Ye Black and Tans | 2015 |
Go Home British Soldiers | 2015 |
Men Behind the Wire | 2015 |
Join the British Army | 2010 |
The Foggy Dew | 2015 |
Back Home to Derry | 2015 |
Rising of the Moon | 2015 |
Billy Reid | 2015 |
Irish Soldier Laddie | 2015 |
Go On Home British Soldiers | 2010 |
Rifles of the IRA | 2015 |
Rockall | 2015 |
Broad Black Brimmer | 2015 |
Only Our Rivers Run Free | 2015 |
A Nation Again | 2015 |
The Sea Around Us | 2015 |
Down by the Glenside | 2015 |
Rock on Rock All | 2016 |
Soldier's Song / Song of the Fianna | 2013 |
A Nation Once Again | 2013 |