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Who Wrote This?

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  • 15-04-2005 9:54am
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    Frank Cronin
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    Hi, anyone know the writer of this song / how I can find out more about him?

    Thanks in advance,
    Frank.

    Follow Me up to Carlow


    Lift mcCahir Og your face
    You're brooding over the old disgrace
    That Black Fitzwilliam stormed your place and sent you to the ferns
    Grey said victory was sure
    Soon the firebrand he'd secured
    Until he met at Glenmalure with Fiach MacHugh 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 halberd our with sword
    On we go for by the Lord
    Fiach MacHugh has given the word
    Follow me up to Carlow.

    See the swords of Glen Imaal
    Go flashing o'er the English pale
    See all the children on 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

    From Teach Sagard to Clonmore
    There flows a stream of Saxon gore
    And great is Rory Og O'More at sending the loons to hades
    White is sick and Grey has fled
    Now for Black Fitzwilliam's head
    We'll send it over dripping red to Liza and her ladies


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