Irish Folksongs Black And Tans Lyrics

Black And Tans Lyrics

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



Chorus:

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 them 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 truely
persecuted

Where are the smears and jeers that you bravely let us hear

When our heros of sixteen were executed



Come tell us how you
slew those brave arabs two by two

Like the zulu's 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 will sing Gods
speed

With a verse of two of Steven Beehan's chorus