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The Three Jacks: Music

Follow Me Up To Carlow / Swallowtail Jig

(The Three Jacks)
2007-10-11
The Three Jacks / Trad.
“Follow Me Up to Carlow” is an 18th century Irish song commemorating a much earlier – briefly – successful revolt of the Irish against their English overlords. The reference to “Liza and her ladies” is to Queen Elizabeth I and her maids-in-waiting.

The song segues into a traditional Irish fiddle tune: “Swallowtail Jig.”