Follow Me Up To Carlow

Em D Em D lift mac cahir og your face , brooding o’er the old disgrace Em D G - D - Em that black fitzwilliam stormed your place and drove you to the fern . Em D Em D gray said victory was sure , soon the firebrand he’d secure Em D G - D - Em until he met at glenmalure , feach mac hugh o’byrne Chorus : G D curse and swear , lord kildare , feach will do what feach will dare G G - D - Em now fitzwilliam have a care , fallen is your star low G D up with halbert , out with sword , on we go for by the lord G G - D - Em feach mac hugh has given his word : follow me up to carlow from tassagart ____to clonmore flows a stream of saxon gore great is rory og o’more at sending loons to hades . white is sick and lane is fled , now for black fitzwilliams head we’ll send it over , dripping red , to liza and her ladies 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 an saxon cock crow out upon an irish rock , fly up and teach him manners