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

[Chorus]
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

[Verse]
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

[Chorus]
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

[Verse]
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

[Chorus]
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

[Chorus]
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