Star Of County Down sing and play along

Near to Banbridge town in the County Down on a morning a in July,

down a boreen green came a sweet caileen,

and she smiled as she passed me by.

Oh, she looked so neat from her two white feet to the sheen of her nutbrown hair.

Such a coaxing elf, had to shake myself to make sure I was really there.

Oh, from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay,

and from Galway to Dublin town,

no maid I've seen like the brown caileen that I met in the County Down.

As she onward sped, I sure scratched my head and I gazed with my feeling quare.

Then I said, said I to a passerby,

"Who's the maid with the nutbrown hair?"

Oh, he smiled at me, and with pride says he,

"That's the gem of her Ireland's crown,

young Rosie McCann from the banks of Bann;

she's the star of the County Down.

Oh, from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay,

and from Galway to Dublin town,

no maid I've seen like the brown caileen that I met in the County Down.

At the met in the County Down.