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Black 'n' Tans

from Advanced Roguery by The Crazy Rogues

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This track is the 3rd one on The Crazy Rogues' new album, Advanced Roguery.

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[Verse 1]
I was born on a Dublin street where the Royal drums did beat
And the loving English feet they walked all over us
And every single night when mi father came home tight
He'd invite the neighbours outside with this chorus

[Chorus]
Oh, come out ye' black and tans
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you got medals down in Flanders
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra

[Verse 2]
Come let us hear you tell
How you slandered great Parnell
When you fought them well and truly persecuted
Where are the smears and jeers
That you bravery let us hear
When our leaders of sixteen were executed

[Chorus]
Oh, come out ye' 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 lanes of Killashandra
[Verse 3]
Come tell us how you slew
Them brave Arabs two by two
Like Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows
How you'd slew each one
With your sixteen pounder gun
And you frightened them pour damn natives to their marrow

[Chorus]
Oh, come out ye' black and tans
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you got medals down in Flanders
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes if Killashandra

Interlude

[Chorus]
Oh, come out ye' black and tans
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you got medals down in Flanders
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra
Oh, come out ye' black and tans
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you got medals down in Flanders
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra

credits

from Advanced Roguery, released October 22, 2021
Lyrics and music: Dominic Behan
Cover version music: Fazekas Gábor

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The Crazy Rogues Veszprém, Hungary

Founded in 2014 in Veszprém,
Hungary, this folk punk rock band
blends Celtic melodies, lazy
country tunes and other folk
elements with upbeat rock music to
generate a cheerful, vivid musical
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