I can't help with the cords, maybe someone else can. However, here are the lyrics, as I learned the song.


COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS

1. I was born on a Dublin street, where them loyal drums did beat,
And those loyal English boots, they walked all o'er us.
And every single night, when me Da would come home tight,
He'd invite the neighbors out with this fine chorus:

Chorus
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 lakes of Killashandra.

2. Come, let us hear you tell how you slandered great Parnell;
When you saw us well and truly persecuted.
Where are the jeers and sneers you so loudly let us hear,
When our leaders of Sixteen were executed.

3. Come, tell us how you slew, how that merits two by two,
Like the Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows.
How bravely you faced one with your sixteen pounder gun,
And you frightened all the natives to tomorrow.

4. Now the time is coming fast, and I think them days are here,
When each English Johnny's heel will run before us;
And if there be a need, then our kids will say: God Speed!
With a verse or two of singing this fine chorus:

If any one has a different version, or can correct any errors in the preceding lyrics, I'd be pleased to receive the same. ^^^

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(-Joe Offer-)