Star Of The County Down Lyrics

Star Of The County Down lyrics

Near Banbridge town in the County Down
one morning last July,
from a
boreen green came a sweet Colleen
And she smiled as she passed me by.
She
looked so sweet from her two bare feet
To the sheen of her nut-brown
hair.
Such a coaxing elf, sure I shook myself
For so see I was really
there.

Chorus:
From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay
and from Galway to
Dublin town,
No maid I’ve seen like the fair colleen
that I met in
the County Down.

As she onward sped, sure I scratched my head
And I
looked with a feeling rare.
And I say, say’s I, to a passer -
by,
"Who’s the maid with the nut - brown hair"?
He
smiled at me and he say’s, say’s he,
"That’s the
gem of Ireland’s crown.
Young Rosie Mc Cann, from the banks of the
bann
She’s the star of the County Down."

At the Harvest
Fair she’ll be surely there
And I’ll dress in my Sunday
clothes,
with my shoes shone bright and my hat cocked right
for a smile
from my nut - brown rose.
No pipe I’ll smoke, no horse I’ll
yoke
Till my plough it is rust - coloured brown.
Till a smiling bride, by
my own fireside
sits the Star of the County Down