The star of the county down (midi)
1. Close to Banbridge town, in the County Down,
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one morning
last July,
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down a
boreen green came a sweet colleen,
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and she smiled as she passed me by.
She
looked so neat from her two bare feet,
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to the
sheen of her nut brown hair.
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Such a
coaxing elf, I'd to shake myself,
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to make sure I was really there.
From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay,
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and from Galway to Dublin town,
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no maid I've seen like the brown colleen,
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that I met in the County Down
2. As she onward sped I sure I scratched my head,
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and I
said with a feeling rare.
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'A….y,' says I to a passer-by,
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'Who's the maid with the nut brown hair?'
He
smiled at me, and then says he,
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'She’s
the gem of Ireland's crown,
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young
Rosie McCann, from the banks of the Bann,
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she's
the Star of the County Down.' + CHORUS
3. At the harvest fair I'll be surely there,
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and
I'll dress in my Sunday clothes.
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With
my shoes shone bright and my head upright,
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and a smile from my nut-brown Rose.
No pipe
I smoke, no horse I yoke,
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let my
plough with rust turn brown,
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till a
smiling bride by my own fireside,
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sits the star of the County Down.