Star Of The County Down - Live At The Menagerie, Belfast, 1999

[00:00.09] In Banbridge town, in a county down, one mornin' last July
[00:29.48] From a boreen green came a sweet colleen
[00:32.18] And she smiled as she passed me by
[00:34.75] She looked so sweet from her two brown feet
[00:37.50] To the sheen of her nut brown hair
[00:40.14] Such a coaxin' elf, sure I shook myself
[00:42.74] For to see I was really there
[00:45.56] From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay
[00:48.29] Up from Galway to Dublin town
[00:50.98] No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
[00:53.60] That I met in the county down
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[01:01.79] At the harvest fair, she'll be surely there
[01:04.46] And I'll dress in my Sunday clothes
[01:07.04] While my shoes shine bright and my hat cocked right
[01:09.80] For a smile from the nut brown rose
[01:12.49] No pipe I'll smoke, no horse I'll yoke
[01:15.13] 'Til my plough is rust coloured brown
[01:17.70] 'Til a smilin' bride by my own fireside
[01:20.56] Sits the star of the county down
[01:23.19] From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay
[01:25.97] Up from Galway to Dublin town
[01:28.69] No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
[01:31.34] That I met in the county down
[01:35.40] As she onward sped, sure I scratched my head
[01:50.01] And I looked with a feelin' rare
[01:52.79] And I said, says I, to a passer by
[01:55.31] "You're the maid with the nut brown hair"
[01:58.02] He looked at me and he says, says he
[02:00.70] "That's the gem of Ireland's crown
[02:03.33] Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann
[02:06.05] She's the star of the county down"
[02:08.61] From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay
[02:11.43] Up from Galway to Dublin town
[02:14.13] No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
[02:16.85] That I met in the county down
[02:19.52] From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay
[02:22.26] Up from Galway to Dublin town
[02:24.91] No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
[02:27.70] That I met in the county down
[02:30.16] From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay
[02:33.08] Up from Galway to Dublin town
[02:35.69] No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
[02:41.65] That I met in the county down
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