[Verse 1]
I was born in a Dublin street where the loyal drums do beat
And the loving English feet, they walked all over us
And every single night when me Da would come home tight,
He'd invite the neighbors out with this chorus

[Chorus]
Come out you 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 lakes of Killeshandra

[Verse 2]
Come tell us how you slew them ol' Arabs two by two
Like the Zulus, they had knives and bows and arrows
Of how bravely you faced one with your sixteen-pounder gun
And you frightened all the natives to the marrow

[Chorus]
Come out you 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 lakes of Killeshandra
[Verse 3]
Come let us hear you tell how you slandered brave Parnell,
And thought him well and truly persecuted
Where are the sneers and jeers that you proudly let us hear,
When our heroes of '16 were executed?

[Chorus]
Come out you 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 lakes of Killeshandra

[Verse 4]
Oh, come out you British Huns, come out and fight without your guns
Show your wife how you won medals up in Derry
You murdered sixteen men and you'll do the same again
So get out of here and take your bloody army

[Outro]
Come out you 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 lakes of Killeshandra
Oh, come out you 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 lakes of Killeshandra