
Date of issue: 31.12.1990
Record label: Celtic Collections
Song language: English
Come out Ye Black and Tans |
I was born on a Dublin street where the Royal drums do beat |
And the loving English feet they tramped all over us |
And each and every night when me father’d come home tight |
He’d invite the neighbors outside with this chorus: |
Oh, come out you black and tans |
Come out and fight me like a man |
Show your wives how you won medals down in Flanders |
Tell them how the IRA made you run like hell away |
From the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra |
Come let me hear you tell |
How you slammed the great Pernell |
When you fought them well and truly persecuted |
Where are the smears and jeers |
That you bravely let us hear |
When our heroes of sixteen were executed |
Come tell us how you slew |
Those brave Arabs two by two |
Like the Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows |
How you bravely slew each one |
With your sixteen pounder gun |
And you frightened them poor natives to their marrow |
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 |
Sure my kids wil sing, «Godspeed!» |
With a verse or two of Steven Beehan’s chorus |
Name | Year |
---|---|
Rifles of the I.R.A. | 1994 |
Go Home British Soldiers | 2014 |
The Wearing of the Green | 2013 |
Men Behind the Wire | 2013 |
Rifles of the IRA | 2013 |
Boys of the Old Brigade | 2014 |
The Fighting 69th | 2013 |
Foggy Dew | 2014 |
Skibereen | 1994 |
Irish Eyes | 2013 |
The Butchers Apron | 2013 |
We Shall Overcome | 2013 |
Streets of New York | 2013 |
Ta Na La | 2013 |
Admiral William Brown | 2013 |
The Orange and the Green | 2013 |
Flight of the Earls | 2013 |
Padraic Pearse | 2013 |
Let the People Sing | 2013 |
Paddys Night Out | 2013 |