Come Out, Ye Black and Tans (Fuck the Police)

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Thom Dunn

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I was born on a Dublin street
Where the royal drums did beat
And those loving English feet, they'd walk all over us
And every single night
When me Da would come home tight
He'd invite the neighbors out with this fine chorus:

F*ck the police, coming straight from the underground
A young Mick's got it bad in this town
'Cause the Tans have authority to kill the majority
Well, f*ck that shit 'cause I ain't the one
For a punk motherfucker with a badge and a gun
To be beating on, or thrown in jail
We can go toe-to-toe in the middle of a cell

Come out, ye Black and Tans
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wives how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lakes of Killeshandra

Come tell us how you slew
Them poor Arabs two-by-two
Like the Zulu, they had spears and bows and arrows
How bravely you faced one
With your sixteen-pounder gun
When you frightened them poor Natives to their marrow

Come let us hear you tell
How you slandered great Parnell
When you through and well and truly persecuted
Where are the sneers and jeeres
That you bravely let us hear
When our leaders of '16 were executed?

Come out, ye Black and Tans
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wives how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lakes of Killeshandra

The time is coming fast
And I think those days are near
When each yeoman, he will run before us
And if there be a need
Then our kids will sing godspeed
With a verse or two of Stephen Behan's chorus:

F*ck the police, coming straight from the underground
A young Mick's got it bad in this town
'Cause the Tans have authority to kill the majority
Well, f*ck that shit 'cause I ain't the one
For a punk motherfucker with a badge and a gun
To be beating on, or thrown in jail
We can go toe-to-toe in the middle of a cell

Come out, ye Black and Tans
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wives how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lakes of Killeshandra

Come out, ye Black and Tans
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wives how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lakes of Killeshandra

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