Jesse Ferguson - Come out ye black and tans

I was ^Amborn on a Dublin street where the ^GRoyal drums do ^Embeat, and the^Am loving English feet they tramped all over us. And ^Ceach and every night when me ^GDad would come home ^Emtight he'd i^Amnvite the neighbours ^Goutside with thi^Ams chorus:

^AmCome out, ye black and tans; come out and f^Gight me like a ^Emman! ^AmShow your wives how you won medals down in Flanders. Tell them h^Cow the IRA made you ^Grun like hell a^Emway, from the g^Amreen and lovely l^Ganes in Killash^Amandra.

^AmCome, tell us how you slew them poor ^GArabs tw^Emo by two: ^Amlike the Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows. Tell us ^Chow you slew each one with your s^Gixteen-pounde^Emr gun ^Amand you frightened them poor n^Gatives to the m^Amarrow.

^AmCome out, ye black and tans; come out and f^Gight me like a^Em man! ^AmShow your wives how you won medals down in Flanders. Tell them h^Cow the IRA made you r^Gun like hell ^Emaway, from the g^Amreen and lovely l^Ganes in Killash^Amandra.

^AmCome on, let us hear you tell how you s^Glaughtered great ^EmParnell. ^AmHow you fought them well and truly persecuted. Where ^Care those sneers and jeers that you b^Gravely let us ^Emhear when our ^Amheroes of six^Gteen were exec^Amuted.

^AmCome out, ye black and tans; come out and f^Gight me like a ^Emman! ^AmShow your wives how you won medals down in Flanders. Tell them ^Chow the IRA made you r^Gun like hell ^Emaway, from the ^Amgreen and lovely l^Ganes in Killash^Amandra.

^AmWell, the day is coming fast, and the ^Gtime is here at ^Emlast ^Amwhen each yeoman will be cast aside before us. And ^Cif there be a need sure my ^Gsons will sing, "Go^Emdspeed!" with a v^Amerse or two of S^Gtephen Beehan's c^Amhorus.

^AmCome out, ye black and tans; come out and f^Gight me like a ^Emman! ^AmShow your wives how you won medals down in Flanders. Tell them h^Cow the IRA made you r^Gun like hell a^Emway, from the ^Amgreen and lovely l^Ganes in Killas^Amhandra. (repeat final line two times)