Letras
I was born in a Dublin street
Where the loyal drums did beat
And those loving English feet
They walked all over us
Oh, and nearly every night
When me da would come home tight
He'd invite the neighbours out
With this fine chorus
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 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 the leaders of sixteen
Were executed?
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 IRA
Made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes
Of Killashandra
Come tell us how you slew
Them old Arabs two by two
Like the Zulus they had spears
And bows and arrows
How bravely you faced one
With your sixteen pounder gun
And you frightened them old natives
To the marrow
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 IRA
Made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes
Of Killashandra
Now the time is coming fast
And I think those days are here
When those English Johnnies' heels
Will run before us
Oh, and if there be a need
Then our kids will say Godspeed
With a verse or two of singing
This fine chorus