[Verse]
I was born in a Dublin street where the loyal drums did beat,
Well 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 the wife 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]
Come let us hear you tell how you slandered great Parnell,
How you thought him well and truly persecuted,
Where are the sneers and jeers that you loudly 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 the wife 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]
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 one with your sixteen pounder gun,
And you frightened them damn natives to their marrow.

[Chorus]
Come out ye black and tans, come out and fight me like a man,
Show the wife 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]
The time is coming fast and I think the day is near,
When each seánín, he will run before us,
And if there'll be a need well our kids will say "Godspeed!"
With a verse or two of singing this fine chorus.

[Chorus]
Come out ye black and tans, come out and fight me like a man,
Show the wife 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 a Dublin street where the loyal drums did beat,
The 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 the wife 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 ye black and tans, come out and fight me like a man,
Show the wife 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.