The Longest Johns – Follow Me Up To Carlow (Guitar)

G             C
Lift MacCahir Og your face

       G                 D
You're brooding o'er the old disgrace

     G                 C
That black FitzWilliam stormed your place

   G         C      D
He drove you to the Fern

G              C
Grey said victory was sure

G                  D
Soon the firebrand he'd secure;

G               C
Until he met at Glenmalure

     G     C       D
With Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne

D               C
Curse and swear Lord Kildare

D                  G
Fiach will do what Fiach will dare

D                C
Now FitzWilliam, have a care

A              G
Fallen is your star, low

D               C
Up with halberd out with sword

D               G
On we'll go for by the lord

D                 C
Fiach MacHugh has given the word

A               G
Follow me up to Carlow

G                 C
See the swords of Glen Imayle

     G                  D
They flash all o'er the English pale

    G                C
See all the children of the Gael

G         C       D
Beneath O'Byrne's banners

G              C
Rooster of the fighting stock

G               D
Would you let a Saxon cock

G                C
Crow out upon an Irish rock?

    G            C         D
Fly up and we'll teach him manners

D               C
Curse and swear Lord Kildare

D                  G
Fiach will do what Fiach will dare

D                 C
Now Fitz William, have a care

A              G
Fallen is your star, low

D               C
Up with halberd out with sword

D               G
On we'll go for by the lord

D                 C
Fiach MacHugh has given the word

A               G
Follow me up to Carlow

G                 C
From Tassagart to Clonmore

      G                 D
There flows a stream of Saxon gore

    G             C
Oh, great is Rory Oge O'More

   G       C        D
At sending loons to Hades

G                 D
White is sick and Grey is fled

    G                  D
And now for black FitzWilliam's head

      G             C
We'll send it over, dripping red

   G        C   D
To Liza and her ladies

D               C
Curse and swear Lord Kildare

D                  G
Fiach will do what Fiach will dare

D                 C
Now Fitz William, have a care

A              G
Fallen is your star, low

D               C
Up with halberd out with sword

D               G
On we'll go for by the lord

D                 C
Fiach MacHugh has given the word

A               G
Follow me up to Carlow

D               C
Curse and swear Lord Kildare

D                  G
Fiach will do what Fiach will dare

D                 C
Now Fitz William, have a care

A              G
Fallen is your star, low

D               C
Up with halberd out with sword

D               G
On we'll go for by the lord

D                 C
Fiach MacHugh has given the word

A               G
Follow me up to Carlow