Lift Mac Cahir 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,
Feach Mac Hugh O´Byrne.
See the swords of Glen Imayle,
Flashing 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 teach him manners.
Curse and swear Lord Kildare
Feach will do what Feach 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
Feach Mac Hugh has given his word
Follow me up to Carlow.
From Tassagart to Clonmore,
Flows a stream
of Saxon gore
Och, great is Rory Oge O´More,
At sending loons to Hades
White is sick and Lane is fled,
Now for
black Fitzwilliam´s head
We´ll send it over, dripping red,
To Liza and the ladies.