The most notable recording of the song was by the Irish traditional group, The Wolfe Tones, who recorded the song on their 1972 album, Let the People Sing, and which credited the writing of the song to Joe Giltrap and Wes McGhee (who were traditional musicians but not band members), and an "unknown PD writer". There are variations of the original lyrics that incorporate references to more modern events in Irish nationalism, such as The Troubles. The lyrics reference the disdain by his neighbours (saying "sneers and jeers that you loudly let us hear"), to the execution of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, and to the fall of the Irish nationalist political leader, Charles Stuart Parnell. The lyrics make references to the history of Irish nationalism, and the conflicts of the British Army against opponents with inferior weaponry: "Come tell us how you slew them poor Arabs two by two / Like the Zulus, they had spears and bows and arrows". He calls them "Black and Tans", and asks them to come out and "fight me like a man", stating that the "IRA" ( Irish Republican Army), had made the Black and Tans "run like hell away" from rural Ireland such as the "green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra" (which is in County Cavan, and where, in 1922, ex-RIC and Black and Tan soldiers were forced to flee the town after being given a few days warning to leave by the local IRA ). In the chorus, the composer is pejoratively labelling his Dublin neighbours, who are pro-British and ex-British army ("show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders"). It is this pro-British working class, of both religions, that the composer is confronting in the song (a noted representation of this cultural group is Bessie Burgess in the Seán O'Casey play The Plough and the Stars). Supporting this tradition was the existence of a relatively large, and now generally forgotten and disappeared, Dublin Protestant working class. During this era, Dublin continued to elect unionist pro-British politicians and voluntary service in the British Army was a popular career choice amongst working-class Dubliners, for both Catholics and Protestants.
COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS LYRICS FREE
While the song title and lyrics refer to the Black and Tans from the War of Independence, the song itself is a dispute between republican and unionist neighbours in inner-city Dublin in the Irish Free State era of the mid-1920s. 1792), which is also used by the loyalist song The Boyne Water.
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COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS LYRICS MAC
The melody of the song was adapted by Behan from an old air, Rosc Catha na Mumhan (Irish for "Battlecry of Munster"), by Piaras Mac Gearailt (Pierce FitzGerald, c. At times, the song's authorship has been mistakenly attributed to Stephen Behan. The setting of the song is the Dublin into which Behan was born in the late 1920s, and the main character in the song (who is calling his neighbours "Black and Tans"), is believed to be Behan's father, Stephen Behan, who was a prominent Irish republican, and who had fought in the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War.
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The date when the song was written is not recorded, but Behan was active as a songwriter from 1958 onwards.
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The song is attributed to Irish songwriter Dominic Behan, who was born into the literary Behan family in Dublin in 1928 (his brother was Brendan Behan).