Come Out Ye Black and Tans (Guitar: Capo x 3) (Banjo: G-Modal) [Am] [G] I was born in a Dublin street where the loyal drums do beat [Am] And the loving English feet they tramped all over us [C] [G] And each day and every night when my father comes home tight [Am] [G] [Am] He'd invite the neighbors outside with this chorus [chorus] [Am] [G] Oh come out ye Black and Tans, come out and fight me like a man [Am] Show your wives how you won medals down in Flanders [C] [G] Tell them how the IRA made you run like hell away [Am] [G] [Am] From the green and lovely lanes in Killeshandra Come let me hear you tell how you've slung the brave Parnell When you thought him well and truly persecuted Where are your sneers and jeers that you loudly let us hear When our heroes of '16 were executed Alan Larkin and O`Brian held you strong and called you swine Robert Emmett who you hung and drew and quartered High upon the scaffold high, how you butchered Henry Joy And the Croppy Boys of Wexford you did slaughter Oh let me hear you slew them poor Arabs two by two Like the Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows How you bravely faced each one with your sixteen-pounder gun And you've frightened them poor natives to their marrows (additional verse) Well the day is closing fast and the time will soon be past When each dawning will be cast aside afore us And if I be in need then me kids will say godspeed With a bar or two of Stephen Behan`s chorus