Irish Songbook
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\beginsong{Follow me up to Carlow}[by=Traditional]
\lilypond{follow_me_up_to_carlow}
\beginverse
\[Dm]Lift MacCahir \[C]Og your face
\[Dm]Brooding o'er the \[C]old dis\[Dm]grace
That black FitzWilliam \[C]stormed your place,
\[Dm]Drove you \[C]to the \[Dm]Fern
Grey said victory was sure
Soon the firebrand he'd secure;
Until he met at Glenmalure
With Feach MacHugh O'Byrne.
\endverse
\beginchorus
\[Am]Curse and swear Lord Kildare,
\[C]Feach will do what Feach will dare
\[Am]Now FitzWilliam, have a care
\[C]Fallen is your \[Dm]star, low.
\[Am]Up with halberd out with sword
\[C]On we'll go for by the lord
\[Am]Feach MacHugh has \[G]given the \[C]word,
Follow me up to \[Dm]Carlow.
\endchorus
\beginverse
See the swords of Glen Imayle,
Flashing o'er the English pale
See all the children of the Gael,
Beneath O'Byrne's banners
Rooster of the fighting stock,
Would you let a Saxon cock
Crow out upon an Irish rock,
Fly up and teach him manners.
\endverse
\beginverse
From Tassagart to Clonmore,
There flows a stream of Saxon gore
Oh, great is Rory Oge O'More,
At sending loons to Hades.
White is sick and Lane is fled,
Now for black FitzWilliam's head
We'll send it over, dripping red,
To Liza and her ladies.
\endverse
\endsong