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Come Out, Ye Black & Tans

from A Kick In The Teeth by Byron Blocker & The Offbeats

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I was born on a Dublin street where the Royal drums do beat
And the lovely English feet trampled over us
And each and every night, when me father'd come home tight
He'd invite the neighbors outside with this chorus

Come out you Black and Tans
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wives how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the I.R.A. made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra

Come, let me hear you tell
How you slandered great Parnell
When you thought themwell and truly persecuted
Where were the sneers and jeers
That you bravely let us hear
When our heroes of sixteen were executed

Come out you Black and Tans
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wives how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the I.R.A. made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra

Come, tell us how you slew
Those brave Arabs two by two
Like Zulus, they had spears and bows and arrows
How you bravely slew each one
With your sixteen pounder gun
When you frightened them poor natives to their marrow

Come out you Black and Tans
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wives how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the I.R.A. made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra

The day is coming fast
And the time is here at last
When each shoneen will be cast aside before us
And if there be a need
Sure my kids will sing "Godspeed!"
With a bar or two of Stephen Behan's chorus

Come out you Black and Tans
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wives how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the I.R.A. made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra

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from A Kick In The Teeth, released July 11, 2011
Produced by Byron Blocker & The Offbeats. Mastered by Rob Harkness at Barn Productions, Los Angeles. Composed by Dominic Behan.

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