Rise Up Ye Black and Tans

This is The Wolf Tones singing "Rise Up Ye Black and Tans."

"Come out ye Black and Tans
come out and fight me like a man.
Show your wife how you won medals out in Flanders.
Tell her how the IRA
made you run like hell away
from the green and lovely lanes in Killeshandra."

For those who do not know, the "Black and Tans" refer to the Royal Irish Constabulary Reserve Force which were put together by the British to suppress the Irish Republican Army.

Peggy Noonan (Ronald Reagan's speech writer) made reference to them today in her excellent piece in today's edition of The Wall Street Journal about why Jeremiah Wright doesn't get her Irish up. Read the whole thing at the link, above

And, to swing it around to terriers, a "Black and Tan" terrier is the old name for what we now refer to as a red-and-black fell terrier, or non-pedigree Welsh or Lakeland terrier, or even (in some circles) a "rough-coated Patterdale."

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