This is an Irish Rebel Song "Come out and fight". It is about some Irish people who really hate the British. This man was born on a street in Dublin where the Royal British Army comes to do bad things. He sings about how they are cowards and sings about his friends making fun of the British. The main character also talks about this story about these Irish people who were fighting and then got executed. This song is pretty short because it just repeats itself, but it is quite interesting and catchy. I really like Irish music because they all sound energetic and happy. It also makes me want to do the Irish dancing which looks really cool to do.
These are the lyrics to the song
I was born on a Dublin street where the Royal drums do beat
And the loving English feet they tramped all over us,
And every night when me father'd come home tight
He'd invite the neighbors outside with this chorus:
Oh, come out you black and tans,
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wives 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 let me hear you tell
How you slammed the great Pernell,
When you fought them well and truly persecuted,
Where are the smears and jeers
That you bravely let us hear
When our heroes of sixteen were executed.
Oh, come out you black and tans...
Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien--
How you bravely called them swine!
Robert Emmett who you hung and drew and quartered!
High upon that scaffold high,
How you murdered Henry Joy!
And our Croppy Boys from Wexford you did slaughter!
Oh, come out you black and tans...
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 wil sing, "Godspeed!"
With a verse or two of Steven Beehan's chorus.
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