[ti:The Star of the County Down]
[ar:Sheoda,Margaret Brennan]
[al:Celtic Woman 3: Ireland]
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[00:18.74]Near Banbridge town, in the County Down
[00:23.41]One morning in July
[00:28.14]Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen
[00:32.84]And she smiled as she passed me by.
[00:37.52]She looked so sweet from her two white feet
[00:42.47]To the sheen of her nut-brown hair
[00:47.34]Such a coaxing elf, I'd to shake myself
[00:52.24]To make sure I was standing there.
[00:56.72]As she onward sped,sure I shook my head
[01:01.60]And I gazed with a feeling rare
[01:06.42]And I said, says I, to a passerby
[01:11.35]Who's the maid with the nut-brown hair?
[01:16.42]He smiled at me, and with pride says he
[01:21.30]That's the gem of Ireland's crown.
[01:25.18]She's young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann
[01:30.62]She's the star of the County Down.
[01:35.69]From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay
[01:40.22]And from Galway to Dublin town
[01:44.51]No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
[01:49.99]That I met in the County Down.
[01:54.69]At the harvest fair She'll be surely there
[01:59.38]So I'll dress in my Sunday clothes
[02:03.95]With my hat just right and my shoes shined bright and from my nut-brown rose.
[02:13.75]No pipe I'll smoke, no horse I'll yoke
[02:18.83]Till my plough turns rust coloured brown.
[02:23.66]Till a smiling bride, by my own fireside
[02:28.44]Sits the star of the county down.
[02:32.84]From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay
[02:37.78]And from Galway to Dublin town
[02:42.46]No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
[02:47.75]That I met in the County Down.
[02:52.03]From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay
[02:57.20]And from Galway to Dublin town
[03:01.21]No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
[03:05.83]That I met in the County Down.
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