Song | Follow Me Up To Carlow |
Artist | Blood Axis |
Album | Witch-Hunt & The Rites Of Samhain |
Lift MacCahir Óg your face, brooding o'er the old disgrace | |
That black FitzWilliam stormed your place and drove you to the Fern | |
Grey said victory was sure and soon the firebrand he'd secure | |
Until he met at Glenmalure with Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne | |
Curse and swear Lord Kildare | |
Fiach will do what Fiach will dare | |
Now FitzWilliam, have a care | |
Fallen is your star low | |
Up with halberd, out with sword | |
On we'll go for by the Lord | |
Fiach MacHugh has given his word, | |
Follow me up to Carlow! | |
See the swords of Glen Imall, the flashin' o'er the English Pale | |
See all the children of the Gael, beneath O'Byrne's banners | |
Rooster of a fighting stock, would you let a Saxon cock | |
Crow out upon an Irish rock, fly up and teach him manners | |
Curse and swear Lord Kildare | |
Fiach will do what Fiach will dare | |
Now FitzWilliam, have a care | |
Fallen is your star low | |
Up with halberd, out with sword | |
On we'll go for by the Lord | |
Fiach MacHugh has given his word, | |
Follow me up to Carlow! | |
(x2) | |
From Tassagart to Clonmore, there flows a stream of Saxon gore | |
And great is Rory Óg O'More, and sending the loons to Hades | |
White is sick and Grey is fled, now for black FitzWilliam's head | |
We'll send it over, dripping red, to Queen Liza and her ladies | |
Curse and swear Lord Kildare | |
Fiach will do what Fiach will dare | |
Now FitzWilliam, have a care | |
Fallen is your star low | |
Up with halberd, out with sword | |
On we'll go for by the Lord | |
Fiach MacHugh has given his word, | |
Follow me up to Carlow! |
Lift MacCahir Ó g your face, brooding o' er the old disgrace | |
That black FitzWilliam stormed your place and drove you to the Fern | |
Grey said victory was sure and soon the firebrand he' d secure | |
Until he met at Glenmalure with Fiach MacHugh O' Byrne | |
Curse and swear Lord Kildare | |
Fiach will do what Fiach will dare | |
Now FitzWilliam, have a care | |
Fallen is your star low | |
Up with halberd, out with sword | |
On we' ll go for by the Lord | |
Fiach MacHugh has given his word, | |
Follow me up to Carlow! | |
See the swords of Glen Imall, the flashin' o' er the English Pale | |
See all the children of the Gael, beneath O' Byrne' s banners | |
Rooster of a fighting stock, would you let a Saxon cock | |
Crow out upon an Irish rock, fly up and teach him manners | |
Curse and swear Lord Kildare | |
Fiach will do what Fiach will dare | |
Now FitzWilliam, have a care | |
Fallen is your star low | |
Up with halberd, out with sword | |
On we' ll go for by the Lord | |
Fiach MacHugh has given his word, | |
Follow me up to Carlow! | |
x2 | |
From Tassagart to Clonmore, there flows a stream of Saxon gore | |
And great is Rory Ó g O' More, and sending the loons to Hades | |
White is sick and Grey is fled, now for black FitzWilliam' s head | |
We' ll send it over, dripping red, to Queen Liza and her ladies | |
Curse and swear Lord Kildare | |
Fiach will do what Fiach will dare | |
Now FitzWilliam, have a care | |
Fallen is your star low | |
Up with halberd, out with sword | |
On we' ll go for by the Lord | |
Fiach MacHugh has given his word, | |
Follow me up to Carlow! |