Star

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 looked so sweet from her two bare feet

To the sheen of her nut-brown hair

Sure the coaxing elf, I'd to shake myself

To be sure I was standing there

As she onward sped, sure I shook my head

And I gazed with a feeling quare

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's the gem of Ireland's crown,

Miss Rosie McCann

From the banks of the Bann,

She's the Star of the County Down.

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

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

She'd a soft brown eye and a look so sly

And a smile like a rose in June

And you hung on each note

From her lilly-white throat

As she lilted an Irish tune

At the pattern dance you were held in a trance

As she kicked through a reel or a jig

And when her eyes she'd roll,

She would lick your soul

A heart she would quickly steal

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

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