Planxty, Follow Me Up To Carlow (1973)
^{Key: :[D#] (w: Patrick Joseph McCall)}

INTRO: [Fm] [Cm] ^[Fm]^[Cm]^[Fm] : [x2]

VERSE 1:
[Fm] Lift MacCahir [Cm] Og your face, your [Fm] brooding o'er the [Cm] old disgrace
That [Fm] Black FitzWilliam [Cm] stormed your place, [Fm] drove you [Cm] to the Fern [Fm]
Grey said victor-[Cm]-y was sure, [Fm] soon the firebrand [Cm] he'd secure
Un-[Fm]-til he met at [Cm] Glenmalure with [Fm] Fiach Mac-[Cm]-Hugh O'-[Fm]-Byrne.

CHORUS:
[Cm] Curse and swear Lord Kildare, [D#] fiach will do what Fiach will dare
[Cm] Now FitzWilliam, have a care, [D#] fallen is your [Fm] star low
[Cm] Up with halberd out with sword, [D#] on we'll go for by the lord
[Cm] Feach MacHugh has given the word, [D#] follow me up to [Fm] Carlow
[Fm] [Cm] ^[Fm]^[Cm]^[Fm]

VERSE 2:
[Fm] See the swords of [Cm] Glen Imall, go [Fm] flashing o'er the [Cm] English Pale
See [Fm] all the children [Cm] of the Gael, be-[Fm]-neath O'-[Cm]-Byrne's [Fm] banners
Rooster of a [Cm] fighting stock, would [Fm] you let a [Cm] English cock
Crow [Fm] out upon an [Cm] Irish rock, fly [Fm] up and [Cm] teach him [Fm] manners.

REPEAT CHORUS:

VERSE 3:
From [Fm] Tassagart to [Cm] Clonmore, there [Fm] flows a stream of [Cm] Saxon gore
Och, [Fm] great is Rory [Cm] Og O'More, [Fm] sending the [Cm] loons to [Fm] Hades.
White is sick and [Cm] Lane is fled, [Fm] now for black Fitz-[Cm]-William's head
We'll [Fm] send it over, [Cm] dripping red, to [Fm] Queen Liza [Cm] and the [Fm] ladies.

REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]