Come Out Ye Black and Tans versuri

Versuri Wild Mountain Thyme – Come Out Ye Black and Tans lyrics

I was born in a Dublin street
Where the Loyal drums do beat
And the loving English feet walked all over us,
And every single night
When me dad would come home tight
He’d invite the neighbors out with this chorus:

Come out ye black and tans,1
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the IRA2
Made you run like hell away,
Through the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra!3

Come tell us how you slew
Them old Arabs two by two
Like Zulu they had spears and bows and arrows,
How bravely you faced one
With your sixteen pounder gun
When you frightened them poor 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 them how the IRA
Made you run like hell away,
Through the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra!

Come sit and do tell
How you slammed the great Pernell,
When you thought him well and truly persecuted,
Where are the sneers and jeers
That you lovely let us hear
When our leaders of sixteen 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 them how the IRA
Made you run like hell away,
Through the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra!

The day is coming fast
And it might be here at last,
When you lift yer kilts and curtsy down before us,
And if there be a need
May our children say „Godspeed!”
And their rifles sing this song, verse, and 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 them how the IRA
Made you run like hell away,
Through the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra!

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 them how the IRA
Made you run like hell away,
Through the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra!