The Wolfe Tones — The Impartial Police Force

If you're in Andytown or the Creggan Oh, we'll greet you with "Tiocfaidh ár lá" Oh, we're nice and polite by and by night We'll answer to 'Níl' agus 'Tá' Don't mind the machine guns and pistols We wear them now only for show And if they're ever used the orangemen we'll abuse And we'll teach them old bigots some law (Chorus) We are the impartial police force The guardians of Ulster are we We'll protect you Sinn Féiners, you fenians and taigs We're known as reformed RUC Now some of you fenians may wonder Why the sudden conversion we had On the twelfth of July, a big flash in the sky We were all droven partially mad Now, come all of you born-again Christians Oh, you better not give any jaw For we don't give a hoot, the plastic we shoot You'll feel the long arm of the law And all you Sinn Féiners and counsels Oh, you'll get a fair craic from the one Don't take any crap from those UDR chaps We'll teach them what's right and what's wrong (Chorus) We are the impartial police force The guardians of Ulster are we We'll protect you Sinn Féiners, you fenians and taigs We're known as reformed RUC Now some of you fenians may wonder What a sudden conversion we had On the twelfth of July, a big flash in the sky We were all droven partially mad There are some of our members now walking The roads and South Country Armagh And sure, up in the glens we're all making friends On the tricolour now, there's no bar Now some go unconscious for hours And then they go into a daze Well, they walk to the Maze and they open the cage And release all the prisoners of war (Chorus) We are the impartial police force The guardians of Ulster are we We'll protect you Sinn Féiners, you fenians and taigs We're known as reformed RUC Now some of you fenians may wonder What a sudden conversion we had On the twelfth of July, a big flash in the sky We were all droven partially mad Now, we've lots of friends down in Dublin No pals of the loyalists are we Oh, never again will we shoot fenian men With papists we'll sit down to tea We're just like the Gardaí in Dublin Or the coppers in New York, you see Oh, we're Herman's brigade and we're all well-behaved The impartial police force are we (Chorus) We are the impartial police force The guardians of Ulster are we We'll protect you Sinn Féiners, you fenians and taigs We're known as reformed RUC Now some of you fenians may wonder What a sudden conversion we had On the twelfth of July, a big flash in the sky We were all droven partially mad