Planxty, Follow Me Up To Carlow (1973)
Key: :[D] (w: Patrick Joseph McCall)
INTRO: [Em] [Bm] ^
[Em]^
[Bm]^
[Em] :
[x2]
VERSE 1:
[Em] Lift MacCahir
[Bm] Og your face, your
[Em] brooding o'er the
[Bm] old disgrace
That
[Em] Black FitzWilliam
[Bm] stormed your place,
[Em] drove you
[Bm] to the Fern
[Em]
Grey said victor-
[Bm]-y was sure,
[Em] soon the firebrand
[Bm] he'd secure
Un-
[Em]-til he met at
[Bm] Glenmalure with
[Em] Fiach Mac-
[Bm]-Hugh O'-
[Em]-Byrne.
CHORUS:
[Bm] Curse and swear Lord Kildare,
[D] fiach will do what Fiach will dare
[Bm] Now FitzWilliam, have a care,
[D] fallen is your
[Em] star low
[Bm] Up with halberd out with sword,
[D] on we'll go for by the lord
[Bm] Feach MacHugh has given the word,
[D] follow me up to
[Em] Carlow
[Em] [Bm] ^
[Em]^
[Bm]^
[Em]
VERSE 2:
[Em] See the swords of
[Bm] Glen Imall, go
[Em] flashing o'er the
[Bm] English Pale
See
[Em] all the children
[Bm] of the Gael, be-
[Em]-neath O'-
[Bm]-Byrne's
[Em] banners
Rooster of a
[Bm] fighting stock, would
[Em] you let a
[Bm] English cock
Crow
[Em] out upon an
[Bm] Irish rock, fly
[Em] up and
[Bm] teach him
[Em] manners.
REPEAT CHORUS:
VERSE 3:
From
[Em] Tassagart to
[Bm] Clonmore, there
[Em] flows a stream of
[Bm] Saxon gore
Och,
[Em] great is Rory
[Bm] Og O'More,
[Em] sending the
[Bm] loons to
[Em] Hades.
White is sick and
[Bm] Lane is fled,
[Em] now for black Fitz-
[Bm]-William's head
We'll
[Em] send it over,
[Bm] dripping red, to
[Em] Queen Liza
[Bm] and the
[Em] ladies.
REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]
