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S.O.F:
I offer my edit of Come Out You Black and Tans:
Versions, for tune, and beat

I was born on a Dublin street where the loyal drums do beat
And the loving English feet they trampled  over us,
And each and every night when me da'd he'd come home tight
And invite the neighbors outside with this chorus:

CHORUS
So come out you black and tans,
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the IRA
Made you run like hell away,
From the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra.

Come tell us how you slew
Them old Arabs two by two
Like the Zulus they had not but spears an' arrows,
How you bravely faced each one
With your sixteen pounder gun
And you frightened them damn natives to the marrow.

Come let me hear you tell
How you slandered great Parnell,
How you thought him well and truly persecuted,
Where are the snears and jeers
That you louded let us hear
When our leaders of sixteen were executed.

CHORUS
So come out you black and tans,
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the IRA
Made you run like hell away,
From the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra.

Well come out you British arms
Come out and fight without your guns
Show your wives how you won medals up in Derry
Where  you murdered fifteen men and you'd do the same again
So get out and take your fucking army

Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien--
How you bravely called them swine!
Robert Emmett who you hung and drew and quartered!
There upon that scaffold high,
How you murdered Henry Joy!
And our Croppy Boys from Wexford you did slaughter!

CHORUS
So come out you black and tans,
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals in the Flaklands
Tell them how the IRA
Made you run like hell away,
From the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra.

The day is coming fast
And the time is here at last,
When each yeoman will be cast aside before us,
And if there be a need
Sure my kids will sing, "Godspeed!"
To a verse or two of Beehan's fine chorus.

CHORUS
So come out you black and tans,
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the IRA
Made you run like hell away,
From the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra.

S.O.F:
Now this is nationalist bunk But every year I am reminded of an argument I had with an English chick at the bar when she was kicking my ass at darts that especially in diasporas, people don't have the comeuppance when you win in the end and that US donors have been the largest to the IRA for years. But certain parts of this forum love imagined pasts so here you go... 

S.O.F:
Or yo put it more accurately how does a man of the "left wing" end on this board have old world baggage (thank you various Great Aunts and the like), and recognize it when the conservative looking back folks don't?...

GamesPoet:
A pub, a lasse on the window, and good ole Irish music ...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9a8pVGa1Mo

Happy St. Patrick's Day! :icon_biggrin: :::cheers:::

KTG17:

--- Quote from: S.O.F on February 22, 2023, 08:35:01 AM ---Now this is nationalist bunk But every year I am reminded of an argument I had with an English chick at the bar when she was kicking my ass at darts that especially in diasporas, people don't have the comeuppance when you win in the end and that US donors have been the largest to the IRA for years. But certain parts of this forum love imagined pasts so here you go...

--- End quote ---

So I have to admit I haven't followed Ireland politics that much and only know a little about the Troubles. How is it that Northern Ireland exists and why wouldnt all Irish want to be part of Ireland? I mean you could always have close ties with the UK, but England seized Northern Ireland, right? Who would appreciate that?

I assume Americans who supported the IRA were of Irish descendants as well, and we certainly have a lot of them. I had a friend was right-off-the-boat Irish and he said the Irish loved America, especially since so many Irish names appeared on sports jerseys here. Kinda surprising since we seem underappreciated everywhere else.

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