[Chorus]
Come out you black and tans, come out and fight me like a man,
Tell the wives how you won medals down in Flanders,
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away,
From the green and lovely lakes of Killashandra.

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

[Chorus]
Come out you black and tans, come out and fight me like a man,
Tell the wives how you won medals down in Flanders,
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away,
From the green and lovely lakes of Killashandra.

[Bridge]
I, I, IRA.

[Verse]
Come tell us how you slew them old Arabs two by two,
The Zulu had spear and bow and arrow,
You bravely you faced one with your sixteen pounder gun,
Frightened them damn natives to their marrow.

[Chorus]
Come out you black and tans, come out and fight me like a man,
Tell the wives how you won medals down in Flanders,
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away,
From the green and lovely lakes of Killashandra.

[Bridge]
I, I, IRA.

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

[Chorus]
Come out you black and tans, come out and fight me like a man,
Tell the wives how you won medals down in Flanders,
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away,
From the green and lovely lakes of Killashandra.

[Chorus]
Come out you black and tans, come out and fight me like a man,
Tell the wives how you won medals down in Flanders,
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away,
From the green and lovely lakes of Killashandra.

[Chorus]
Come out you black and tans, come out and fight me like a man,
Tell the wives how you won medals down in Flanders,
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away,
From the green and lovely lakes of Killashandra.