Ta rewolucyjna pieśń szydzi ze znienawidzonych w Irlandii oddziałów paramilitarnych zwanych „black&tans”, czyli „czarno-popielaci”, byli to uczestnicy niedawnej I Wojny Światowej, walczący w Holandii i Flandrii, stąd wzmianka o tych krajach w refrenie. wspomagali brytyjską armię w tłumieniu niepodległościowych dążeń Irlanczyków w latach 1919-1921. Parnell zaś był przywódcą Powstania Wielkanocnego, nieudanego zrywu Irlanczyków w 1916 roku.

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Wolfe Tones
Let the People Sing, Shanachie 1963
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Come Out Ye Black And Tans

I was born in a Dublin street where the loyal drums do beat
And those loving English feet, they walked all over us
And each and every night when me Da would come home tight
He’d invite the neighbours out with this chorus:

Come out ye Black and Tans come out and fight me like a man.
Show your wife 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.

Come and tell her how you slew them oul Arabs two by two
Like the Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows
How you bravely faced each one with your sixteen pounder gun
And you frightened them damn natives to the marrow.

Come let us hear you tell how you slandered great Parnell
When you thought him well and truly persecuted
Where are the sneers and jeers
When our leaders of ’16 were executed?