Story Behind the Song
A beautiful Irish song I learned in the early 80s.
Lyrics
STAR OF THE COUNTY DOWN
1. Near Bainbridge town in the County Down,
One morning last July,
Down a boorin 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.
Such a coaxin' elf, sure, I shook myself,
For to see I was really there.
CHORUS:
From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay,
And from Galway to Dublin town,
No maid Ive seen like the brown colleen,
That I met in the County Down.
2. As she onward sped, sure I scratched my head,
And I looked with a feeling rare.
And I says, says I, to a passerby,
"Who's the maid with the nut brown hair?"
He smiled at me and he says, says he,
"That's the gem of Irelands crown.
Young Rosie McGann from the banks o' the Bann,
She's the Star of the County Down."
3. At the harvest fair, shell be surely there,
So I'll dress in my Sunday clothes,
With my shoes shown bright and my hat cocked right,
For a smile from the nut brown rose.
No pipe I'll smoke and no horse I'll yoke,
'Till my plough is a rust colored brown,
'Till a smilin' bride by my own fireside,
Sits the Star of the County Down.
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