lift maccahir og your face you re brooding o er you re old disgrace that black fitzwilliam stormed your place he sent 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 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 out with sword on we ll go for by the lord fiach machugh has given the word follow me up to carlow from tassagart to clonmore there flows a stream of saxon gore oh great is rory oge o more at sending loons to hades white is sick and grey 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 halberd out with sword on we ll go for by the lord fiach machugh has given the word follow me up to carlow 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 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 imayle they flash all o er the english pale see all the children of the gael beneath o byrne s banners rooster of the fighting stock would you let a saxon cock crow out upon an irish rock fly up and we ll 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 halberd out with sword on we ll go for by the lord fiach machugh has given the word follow me up to carlow 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 out with sword on we ll go for by the lord fiach machugh has given the word follow me up to carlow1