Star Of The County Down

By Bardic (2019)
On album Bardic Alchemy (2019)

Bardic Alchemy
Near Banbridge town in the County Down one morning last July

Down a Boreen green came a sweet coleen 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 to see I was really
there


From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town

No maid I've seen like the brown coleen 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 says, says I, to a passer-by: Who's the maid with the nut-brown
hair?

He smiled at me and than says he: That's the gem of Irelands crown

Young Rosie Mc
Cann from the banks of the Bann she's the star of the
County Down


From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town

No maid I've seen like the brown coleen that I met in the County Down


At the harvest fair she'll be surely there, so 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, til my plough is a
rust-coloured brown

Til a smiling bride by my own fireside, sits the star of the County
Down


From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town

No maid I've seen like the brown coleen that I met in the County Down

From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town

No maid I've seen like the brown coleen that I met in the County Down

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