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I was born on a Dublin street where the Royal drums do beat
And those loving English feet they walked all over us,
And every single night when me da come home tight
He'd invite the neighbors outside with this 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.
Come let us hear you tell
How you slandered great Pernell,
When you fought them well and truly persecuted,
Where are the smears and jeers
That you loudly let us hear
When our 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
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 old Arabs two by two
Like the Zulus they had spears and bow and arrows,
How you bravely faced one
With your sixteen pounder gun
And you frightened them damn natives to their 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
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 hun and heel run before us,
And if there be a need
then our kids will sing god speed
With a verse or two of singing this one .
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.
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