Out-of-tune Tyrone footballers have no excuses

‘Come Out Ye Black and Tans’ is having quite a moment, isn’t it?

Out-of-tune Tyrone footballers have no excuses

‘Come Out Ye Black and Tans’ is having quite a moment, isn’t it?

A somewhat-forgotten ditty about a Dublin inner-city character who would return from the pub by night and sing about inviting the neighbours out for a scrap against the feared Black and Tans, it was written by Brendan Behan’s brother, Dominic, in a pastiche of his father.

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