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Near Banbridge town, in the County Down
One morning last July
Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen
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 standing there.
From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay
And from Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the fair colleen
That I met in the County Down.
As she onward sped sure I scrached my head
And I looked with a feeling rare
And I said, says I, to a passerby
Whos the maid with the nut-brown hair?"
He smiled at me, and he says, says he,
"Thats
the
gem
of
Ireland's crown.
Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann
Shed
the
star
of
the
County
Down.At the harvest fair she'll be surely there
And I'll dress in my Sunday clothes
With my shoes shone bright
And my hat cocked right
For a smile of my nut-brown rose
No pipe I'll smoke, no horse I'll yoke
Though with rust my plow turns brown
Till a smiling bride by my own fireside
Sits the star of the County Down.
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