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 look so sweet from her two bare feet to the sheen of her nut brown hair
Such a caoxing elf, sure I shook myself, for to see I was really there

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From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town,
No maid I've seen like the brown colleen 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 he says, says he : "That the gem of Ireland's crown
Young Rosie McCann from the Banks of the Bann ; She's the star of the County Down."

At the harvest faire she'll be surely there, so I'll dress in my Sunday clothes
With my shoes shone bright and my hat c___ed right for a smile from my nut-brown rose.
No pipe I'll smoke, no horse I'll yoke till my plough is rust-coloured brown
Till a smiling bride by my own fireside sits the star of the County Down.

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