[ti:Star of the County Down]
[ar:The Pogues]
[al:Peace and Love]
[00:15.92]Near banbridge town in the county down
[00:17.80]One morning last july,
[00:20.94]From a boreen green came a sweet colleen
[00:23.46]And she smiled as she passed me by.
[00:25.99]She looked so sweet from her two bare feet
[00:28.66]To the sheen of her nut brown hair.
[00:30.99]Such a coaxing elf, sure I shook myself
[00:33.50]For to see I was really there.
[00:35.90]
[00:36.29]From bantry bay up to derry quay and
[00:38.39]From galway to dublin town,
[00:40.85]No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
[00:43.63]That I met in the county down.
[00:46.03]As she onward sped, sure I scratched my head,
[00:49.01]And I looked with a feelin' rare,
[00:51.31]And I say's, say's i, to a passer-by,
[00:53.66]"whose the maid with the nut brown hair"? “
[00:56.35]He smiled at me and he says's, say's he,
[00:59.02]"that's the gem of ireland's crown. “
[01:01.55]It's rosie mccann from the banks of the bann,
[01:04.22]She's the star of the county down".
[01:06.28]
[01:06.75]From bantry bay up to derry ouay and
[01:09.32]From galway to dublin town,
[01:11.64]No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
[01:14.09]That I met in the county down.
[01:37.41]At the harvest fair she'll be surely there
[01:40.27]And I'll dress in my sunday clothes,
[01:42.98]With my shoes shone bright and my hat cocked
[01:45.21]Right for a smile from my nut brown rose.
[01:47.53]No pipe I'll smoke, no horse I'll yoke
[01:49.83]Till my plough turns rust coloured brown.
[01:52.29]Till a smiling bride, by my own fireside
[01:55.34]Sits the star of the county down.
[01:57.73]From bantry bay up to derry ouay and
[02:00.37]From galway to dublin town,
[02:02.74]No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
[02:05.18]That I met in the county down.
[02:07.86]From bantry bay up to derry ouay and
[02:10.55]From galway to dublin town,
[02:13.06]No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
[02:18.67]That I met in the county down.
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