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Follow me up to Carlow - Noel McLaughlin
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1. Litt MacCahir Og your face brooding o'er the old disgrace,
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That black Fitz William stormed your place, drove you to the Fern
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Grey said victory was sure soon the firebrand he'd secure;
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Until he met at Glenmalure with Feach MacHugh O'Byrne.
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Curse and swear Lord Kildare,
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Feagh will do what Feach will dare
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Now FitzWilliam, have a care
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Fallen is your star, low.
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Up with halbert out with sword
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(On we'll go for by the lord)
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Feach MacHugh had given the word,
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Follow me up to Carlow.
2. 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.
3. From Tassagart to Clonmore, there flows a stream of Saxon gore
Och, great is Rory Oge 0'More, sending the loons to Hades.
White is sick and Lane is fled, now for black FitzWilliam's head
We'll send it over, dripping red, to Queen Liza and the ladies.