Come out you Black And Tans, come out and fight me like a man.

Show your wife how won medals down in Flanders.

Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away

From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra.

Come tell us how you slew them auld Arabs two-by-two.

Like the Zulus they had spears, a bow and arrow.

How bravely you faced one with your sixteen-pounder gun

And frightened them damn natives to their marrow.

Come out you Black And Tans, come out and fight me like a man.

Show your wife how won medals down in Flanders.

Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away

From the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra.

Tell her how you slew them auld Arabs two-by-two.

Like the Zulus they had spears, a bow and arrow.

Tell her how you faced down one with your fifteen-pounder gun

And frightened them damn natives to their marrow.