I was ^Am born in a Dublin street where the ^G loyal drums do beat And the ^Am loving English feet they tramped all over us And ^C each day and every night when my ^G father comes home tight He'd ^Am invite the neighbours ^G outside with this ^Am chorus

Oh come^Am out ye Black and Tans, come out and ^G fight me like a man Show your ^Am wives how you won medals down in Flanders Tell ^C them how the IRA made you ^G run like hell away From the ^Am green and lovely ^G lanes in Kille^Amshandra

Come let ^Am me hear you tell how you've ^G slung the brave Parnell When you ^Am thought him well and truly persecuted Where ^C are your sneers and jeers that you ^G loudly let us hear When ^Am our heroes of ^G '16 were ^Am executed

Alan ^Am Larkin and O'Brian held you ^G strong and called you swine Robert ^Am Emmett who you hung and drew and quartered High ^C upon the scaffold high, how you ^G butchered Henry Joy And ^Am the Croppy Boys of ^G Wexford you did ^Am slaughter

Oh let me ^Am hear you slew them poor ^G Arabs two by two Like the ^Am Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows How ^C you bravely faced each one with your ^G sixteen-pounder gun And ^Am you've frightened them poor ^G natives to their ^Am marrows

Well the ^Am day is closing fast and the ^G time will soon be past When each ^Am dawning will be cast aside afore us And ^C if I be in need then me kids ^G will say godspeed With ^Am a bar or two of Stephen ^G Behan's ^Am chorus