The Black And Tans

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[Verse 1]
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I was born on a Dublin street where the Royal drums do beat
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And the loving English people walked all over us
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And every single every night when me dad would come home tight
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He'd invite the neighbors out with this chorus


[Chorus]
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Come out you Black and Tans, come out and fight me like a man
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Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
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Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away
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From the green and lovely lakes of Killashandra


[Verse 2]
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Come tell us how you slew them ol' Arabs two by two
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Like the Zulus they had knives and bows and arrows
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Oh, how you bravely you faced one with your sixteen pounder gun
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And you frightened all natives to the marrow


[Chorus]
Am                                         G              Em
Come out you Black and Tans, come out and fight me like a man
          Am
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
          C                   G              Em
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away
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From the green and lovely lakes of Killashandra


[Verse 3]
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Come let me hear you tell how you slammed the brave Parnell
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And taught him well and truly persecuted
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Where are the sneers and jeers that you proudly let us hear
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When our heroes of sixteen were executed?


[Chorus]
Am                                         G              Em
Come out you Black and Tans, come out and fight me like a man
          Am
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
          C                   G              Em
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away
           Am               G           Am
From the green and lovely lakes of Killashandra

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[Verse 4]
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Oh, come out you British Huns, come out and fight without your guns
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Show your wife how you won medals up in Derry
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You murdered sixteen men and you'll do the same again
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So get out of here and take your bloody army


[Chorus]
Am                                         G              Em
Come out you Black and Tans, come out and fight me like a man
          Am
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
          C                   G              Em
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away
           Am               G           Am
From the green and lovely lakes of Killashandra


[Chorus]
Am                                         G              Em
Come out you Black and Tans, come out and fight me like a man
          Am
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
          C                   G              Em
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away
           Am               G           Am
From the green and lovely lakes of Killashandra