STAR OF THE COUNTY DOWN
Near Banbridge town in the County Down
one evening last July
From 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 that I shook myself
just to see she was standing there
From Bantry bay up to Derry Quay
and from Galway to Dublin town
no maid I’ve seen like the sweet colleen
that I met in the County Down
She onward sped and I turned my head
And I stared with a feeling rare
And I said, says I, to a passerby
Who’s the girl with the nut brown hair?
He smiled at me and he said, said he
That’s the gem of Ireland’s crown
Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann
She is the star of the County Down
From Bantry bay up to Derry Quay...
She’d a soft brown eye and a look so sly
and a smile like a rose in june
And she held each note from her auburn throat
as she lifted lamenting tunes
At the pattern dance you’ll be in a trance
As she skips through a jig or a reel
When her eyes she’d roll, she would lift your soul
and your heart she would likely steal
From Bantry bay up to Derry Quay...
At the harvest fair she’d be surely there
And I’ll dress in my Sunday clothes
With my shoes shone bright and my hat cocked right
and a smile for my nut brown rose
No pipe I’ll smoke and no horse I’ll yolk
Til my plow is a rusted brown
‘Til my smiling bride by me own fireside
sits the Star of the County Down
From Bantry bay up to Derry Quay...
From Bantry bay up to Derry Quay...
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Versió de LYRIEL
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