Come Out Ye Black and Tans Songtext
von The Fenians

I was born on a Dublin street where the loyal drums did beat
And those 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 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 tell us how you slew
Them ol′ Arabs two by two
Like the Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows
How bravely you faced one with your 16-pounder gun
And you frightened them damn natives to their 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

Now the time is coming fast
And I think them days are here
When each English seánín, he'll run before us
And if there'll be a need, you know my son will say "Godspeed"
With a verse or two of singing this fine 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


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 IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra
From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra
From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra

Morning Margret
Take care, our love, our day will come