The Star Of The County Down

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VERSE 1
Near Banbridge town in the County Down one morning in July
Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen
she smiled as she passed me by.
She looked so neat from her two white feet
To the sheen of her nut-brown hair
Sure the coaxing elf I’d to shake myself
To make sure I was standing there

CHORUS
From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay
From Galway to Dublin Town
No maid I’ve seen like the sweet colleen
That I met in the County Down

VERSE 2
As I onward sped I shook my head and I gazed with a feeling queer
And I said said I to a passerby who’s that maid with the nut-brown hair
He smiled at me and with pride said he that’s the gem of Ireland’s crown
Sweet Rosie McCann from the banks or the Bann
She’s the star of the County Down

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VERSE 3
She’d a soft brown eye and a look so sly
And a smile as a rose in June
And you hung on each note from her lily white throat
As she lilted an Irish tune
At the pattern dance you were held in a trance
As she skipped through a reel & a jig
When her eyes they’d roll she’d coax upon my soul
A spud from a hungry pig

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