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Thread #76336 Message #1351889
Posted By: GUEST
09-Dec-04 - 08:17 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Looking for Elizabethan Era songs - help
Subject: Lyr Add: FOLLOW ME UP TO CARLOW
You might try this one from the DT (with some repairs to spellings)
FOLLOW ME UP TO CARLOW
Lift MacCahir Og your face brooding o'er the old disgrace That black FitzWilliam stormed your place, and drove you to the Fern Grey said victory was sure soon the firebrand he'd secure; Until he met at Glenmalure with Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne.
Ch.: 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'll go for by the lord Fiach MacHugh has given the word, Follow me up to Carlow.
See the swords of Glen Immal, flashing o'er the English Pale See all the children of the Gael, beneath O'Byrne's banner Rooster of a fighting stock, would you let a Saxon cock Crow out upon an Irish rock, fly up and teach him manners.
From Tassagart to Clonmore, there flows a stream of Saxon gore And great is Rory Oge O'More, at sending 'loons to Hades. White is sick and Grey is fled, now for black FitzWilliam's head We'll send it over, alldripping red, to Queen Liza and her ladies.
NOTE: The Tune is a fast (!) Irish march. recorded by Planxty on their first album (1972) and by Noel McLough
In 1580, in the lonely pass of Glenmalure in Co. Wicklow, Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne completely overthrew the forces of the Crown under Lord Grey de Wilton. The victory is commemorated in this stirring song.