Misc Traditional – Star Of The County Down (Guitar)

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Near to Banbridge town, in the County Down, one morning in July

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Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen and she smiled as she passed me by

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She looked so neat from her two white feet to the sheen of her nut-brown hair

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Sure a coaxing elf, I'd to shake myself, to make sure I was really there

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From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town

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No maid I've seen like the brown Colleen that I met in County Down

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As she onward sped, sure I shook my head and I gazed with a feeling quare

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And I said, says I to a passer-by, who's the maid with the nut-brown hair?

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He smiled at me and with pride says he, that's the gem of Irelands crown

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She's young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann, she's the star of the County Down 

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From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town

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No maid I've seen like the brown Colleen that I met in County Down

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She'd a soft brown eye and a look so sly and a smile like the rose in June

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And you held each note from her lily-white throat, as she lilted an Irish tune

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At the pattern dance you were in trance as she tripped through a jig or reel

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When her eyes she'd roll, she would lift your soul as your heart she would likely steal

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From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town

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No maid I've seen like the brown Colleen that I met in County Down

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At the harvest fair she'll be surely there and I'll dress my Sunday clothes

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With my shoes shon bright and my hat cocked right for a smile from the nut-brown Rose

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No pipe I smoke, no horse I'll yoke, let my plough with the rust turn brown

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Till a smiling bride  by my fireside sits the star of the County Down

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From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town

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No maid I've seen like the brown Colleen that I met in County Down