I was born on a Dublin street, where the royal drums did beat And the loving marching feet, they walked all over us And every single night, when my father came home tight He awoke the neighbours outside with his chorus
Come out you Black'n'Tans, come out and fight me like a man Show your wifes 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 - yeah!
Come let us hear you tell, how you slammed the great Parnell How you fought him well and truely persecuted Where were your sneers and jeers that you loudly let us hear When our heroes of sixteen were executed
Come tell us how you slew them oul arabs two by two Like the zulus they had spears and bows and arrows How bravely you faced one with your sixteen shotgun And you frightened the poor natives to their marrow
Now the time is running fast and I think the days are here When each f*ck*ng armed yoeman, he runs before us And if there'll be a need, then our kids will sing God speed With a verse of two of Steven Beehan's chorus