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The Star of County Down
John McCormack
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Near Banbridge town in the County Down one morning last July
Down a boreen green came a sweet cailรญn
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 I was ashamed of
Myself for to say I was really there
From Ballintribee up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the brown cailรญn that I met in the County Down
As she onward sped sure I scratched me
Head and I looked with a feeling rare
And I said, says I, to a passer-by, "
Who's the maid with the nut brown hair?"
He smiled at me and he says to me, "That's the gem in Ireland's crown
Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the
Bann, she's the star of the County Down"
From Ballintribee up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the brown cailรญn that I met in the County Down
At the harvest fair she'll be surely
There so I'll dress in me Sunday clothes
With me shoes shone bright and me hat cocked
Right for a smile from the nut brown Rose
No pipe I'll smoke and no horse I'll yoke
Till me plough is a rust-coloured brown
Till a smiling bride by me own fireside is the star of the County Down
From Ballintribee up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the brown cailรญn that I met in the County Down
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