The Impartial Police Force - The Wolfe Tones

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

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 drove impartially 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

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 drove impartially 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

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 drove impartially 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 Gardáí 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

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 drove impartially mad