[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 Killashandra.

[Verse]
I was born in a Dublin street where the loyal drums did beat,
And those loving English feet they walked all over us,
And every single night when me da would come home tight,
He'd invite the neighbours out with this chorus.

[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 Killashandra.

[Verse]
Come tell us how you slew them old Arabs two by two,
Like the Zulus they had spears and bow and arrows,
How bravely you faced each one with your sixteen pounder gun,
And you frightened them poor natives to their marrow.

[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 Killashandra.

[Verse]
Come let us hear you tell how you slandered great Parnell,
You thought him well and truly persecuted,
Where are the cheers and jeers that you bravely let us hear,
When our leaders of '16 were executed?

[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 Killashandra.

[Chorus]
Come out ye black and tans, come out and fight me like a man,
Tell your wives 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.