[00:06.72]In banbridge town in the county down
[00:08.35] One morning last july,
[00:11.39] From a boreen green came a sweet colleen
[00:14.24] And she smiled as she passed me by.
[00:17.48] She looked so sweet fronn her two bare feet
[00:19.92] To the sheen of her nut brown hair.
[00:22.76] Such a coaxing elf, sure I shook myself
[00:25.40] For to see I was really there.
[00:28.93] From bantry bay up to derry quay and
[00:30.97] From galway to dublin town,
[00:33.61] No maid Ive seen like the brown colleen
[00:36.45] That I met in the county down.
[00:44.17] As she onward sped, sure I scratched my head,
[00:46.81] And I looked with a feelin rare,
[00:49.45] And I says, says i, to a passer-by,
[00:52.09] Whose the maid with the nut brown hair?
[00:54.73] He smiled at me and he sayss, says he,
[00:57.58] Thats the gem of irelands crown.
[01:00.22] Its rosie mccann from the banks of the bann,
[01:02.86] Shes the star of the county down.
[01:05.50] From bantry bay up to derry quay and
[01:08.14] From galway to dublin town,
[01:10.98] No maid Ive seen like the brown colleen
[01:13.22] That I met in the county down.
[01:21.14] At the harvest fair shell be surely there
[01:23.98] And Ill dress in my sunday clothes,
[01:27.03] With my shoes shone bright and my hat cocked
[01:29.87] Right for a smile from my nut brown rose.
[01:33.12] No pipe Ill smoke, no horse Ill yoke
[01:35.76] Till my plough turns rust coloured brown.
[01:38.61] Till a smiling bride, by my own fireside
[01:41.05] Sits the star of the county down.