Follow Me Up to Callow Songtext
von Jim McCann

Lift Mac Cahir Og your face,
You′re broodin' o′er the old disgrace
That Black Fitzwilliam stormed your place
And drove you to the ferns
Gray said victory was sure,
And soon the firebrand he'd secure
Until he met at Glenmalure
With Fiach McHugh 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 halbert, out with sword,
On we go for, by the Lord
Fiach McHugh has given the word
"Follow me up to Carlow"


See the swords of Glen Imaal,
They′re flashing o′er the English Pale
See all the childer of the Gael,
Beneath O'Byrne′s banner
Rooster of the 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 halbert, out with sword,
On we go for, by the Lord
Fiach McHugh has given the word
"Follow me up to Carlow"

From Tassagart to Clonmore,
There flows a stream of Saxon gore
And great is Rory Og O'More
At sending loons to Hades
White is sick and Gray is fled,
And now for black Fitzwilliam′s head
We'll send it over, dripping red
To 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 halbert, out with sword,
On we go for, by the Lord
Fiach McHugh has given the word
"Follow me up to Carlow"