Follow Me Up To Carlow
Patrick Joseph McCall

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Lift, McCahir Og, your face
      Am
Still brooding over the old disgrace?
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That Black FitzWilliam stormed your place
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Drove you to the Fern
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Gray said victory was sure
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And soon the firebrand he'd secure
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Until he met at Glenmalure
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With Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne

[chorus]
Em                             G
Curse and swear, Lord Kildare, Fiach will do what Fiach will dare
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Now FitzWilliam have a care, fallen is your star low
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Up with halberd, out with sword, on we'll go for by the lord
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Fiach MacHugh has given the word, follow me up to Carlow


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See the swords of Glen Imayle
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Flashing over the English pale
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See all the children of the Gael
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Beneath O'Byrne's banners
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Roosters of the fighting stock
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Would you let a Saxon cock
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Crow out upon an Irish rock?
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Fly up and teach him manners

[chorus]
Em                             G
Curse and swear, Lord Kildare, Fiach will do what Fiach will dare
Em                           G              Am
Now FitzWilliam have a care, fallen is your star low
Em                               G
Up with halberd, out with sword, on we'll go for by the lord
Em                                G               Am
Fiach MacHugh has given the word, follow me up to Carlow


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From Tassagart to Clonmore
      Am
There flows a stream of Saxon gore
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O great is Rory Og O'More
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At sending the loons to Hades
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White is sick, Grey is fled
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And now for Black FitzWilliam's head
      Am
We'll send it over dripping red
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To Liza and her ladies

[chorus]
Em                             G
Curse and swear, Lord Kildare, Fiach will do what Fiach will dare
Em                           G              Am
Now FitzWilliam have a care, fallen is your star low
Em                               G
Up with halberd, out with sword, on we'll go for by the lord
Em                                G               Am
Fiach MacHugh has given the word, follow me up to Carlow