Uncle J Even you can play this
Enjoy,
-T
Star of the County Down
Near Bainbridge town in the county down one morning last July
Down the wild boreen 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.
Sure a coaxing elf I d to shake me-self to make sure I was standing there.
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From Bantry Bay down to Derry Quay from Galway to Dublin Town.
No Maid I ve seen like the sweet Colleen that I met in the county down.
As she onward sped sure I shook my head and I gazed with a feeling quare
And I said, says I, to a passer-by: whose the maid with the nut brown hair?
Oh he smiled at me and with pride says he; that s the gem of Ireland s crown.
She s young Rosie McGann from the banks of the Bann she s the star of the county
Down.
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She d a soft brown eye and a look so sly and a smile like a rose in June
And you craved each note from her lily-white throat as she lifted an Irish tune
At the pattern dance you d be held in trance as she tripped through a jig or a reel
When her eyes she d roll she would lift your soul and your heart she would quickly steal
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Now I ve roamed a bit was never hit since my traveling days began
But fair and square I surrendered there to the charms of young Rosie McCann
With my heart to let sure no tenant yet did I meet with a shawl or a gown
But in she went and I asked no rent from the star of the County Down.
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