Story Behind the Song
This is the first song from the new album which will be completed soon.We chose this song as it is one of the favourites at our live shows.
Lyrics
STAR OF THE COUNTY DOWN
Near to 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 crown of her nut-brown hair,
Such a winsome elf, I'd to shake myself
To see she was really there.
CHORUS:
From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay,
And from Galway to Dublin town,
No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
I met in the County Down.
As she onward sped, so I shook my head
And I looked with a feeling rare,
And I said, says I, to a passer-by,
"Who's that maid with the nut-brown hair?"
He smiled at me, and he says to me,
"She’s the gem on Ireland's crown,
Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann,
She's the Star of the County Down."
CHORUS
At the harvest fair she'll be surely there
And I'll dress in my Sunday clothes
with my hat tucked right, and my shoes shown bright
And all for my nut-brown Rose.
No pipe I'll smoke, no horse I'll yoke
Though my plow with rust turns brown,
Till a smiling bride by me own fireside
Sits the Star of the County Down.
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