The star of the County Down (2005)
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1. Near Banbridge town, in the County Down,
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one
morning last July,
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C
down
a boreen green came a sweet colleen,
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and
she smiled as she passed me by.
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She looked so sweet 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, sure I shook myself,
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for
to see I was really there.
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From Bantry Bay down 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.
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2. As she onward sped, sure I scratched my head,
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and I
looked with a feeling rare,
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and I
says, says I, to a passer by,
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“Who’s the maid with the
nut-brown hair ?”
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He smiled at me and he says’s, says’s he,
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“that’s the gem of
Ireland’s crown,
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young
Rosie McCann from the bank of a Bann,
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she’s
the Star of the County Down.”
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From Bantry Bay down 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.
+ instrumental = verse
2
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3. At the harvest fair she’ll be surely there,
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I’ll dress in my Sunday
clothes,
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my
shoes shone bright and my hat upright,
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Dm
for a
smile from my nut-brown rose.
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No pipe I’ll smoke, no horse
I’ll yoke,
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till
my plough turns rust-colored brown,
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till
a smiling bride, by my own fireside
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sits
the Star of the County Down.
+ CHORUS (2x)
+ instrumental = CHORUS
(The Pogues)