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Artist: The Irish Descendants
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The Black And Tans
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The Black And Tans
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I was born in the Dublin street where the loyal drums do beat
And the lovely English feet they walked all over us
And every single night, when me dad 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 Killeshandra
Come tell us how you slew them old arabs two by two
Like the Zulus they have knives and bows and arrows
Of how bravely you faced one with your sixty-pounder gun
And you frightened all the natives to the 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 Killeshandra
Come let us hear you tell how you slammed the brave Parnell
And taught him well and truly persecuted
Where are the sneers and jeers that you proudly let us hear
When our heroes 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 her how the IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra
Oh, come out you British huns, come out and fight without your guns
Show your wife, how you won medals up in Derry
You murdered sixteen men, and you'll do the same again
So get out of here and take your bloody army
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 Killeshandra
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