Close to Banbridge town in the county Down
One morning last July
Down the boreen green came a sweet colleen
She smiled as she passed me by
She looked so neat from her two bare feet
To the sheen of her nutbrown hair
Such a coaxin' elf, I did shake myself
To make sure I was really there
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
I met in the county Down
As she onward sped sure I stretched my head
And I gazed with a feeling rare
Oh and said, says I, to a passerby
Who's the maid with the nutbrown hair?
He smiled at me and with pride says he
That's the gem of old Ireland's crown
And she's young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann
The star of the county Down
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
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 hang on each note from her lillywhite throat
As she lilted an irish tune
And at the pattern dance you'll be held in trance
As she skipped through a jig or a reel
And when her eyes she'd roll coax upon your soul
Your heart she would likely steal
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
I met in the county Down
At the harvest fair she'll be surely there
I am dressed in my Sunday clothes
And with my shoes shone bright, with my hat upright
For a smile from the nutbrown rose
No pipe I'll smoke and no horse I'll yoke
'Til my plough is the rust-colour brown
'Til my smiling bride by my own fireside
Sits the star of the county Down
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
I met in the county Down
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
I met in the county Down
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
I met in the county Down
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Close to Banbridge town in the county Down
One morning last July
Down the boreen green came a sweet colleen
She smiled as she passed me by
She looked so neat from her two bare feet
To the sheen of her nutbrown hair
Such a coaxin' elf, I did shake myself
To make sure I was really there
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
I met in the county Down
As she onward sped sure I stretched my head
And I gazed with a feeling rare
Oh and said, says I, to a passerby
Who's the maid with the nutbrown hair?
He smiled at me and with pride says he
That's the gem of old Ireland's crown
And she's young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann
The star of the county Down
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
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 hang on each note from her lillywhite throat
As she lilted an irish tune
And at the pattern dance you'll be held in trance
As she skipped through a jig or a reel
And when her eyes she'd roll coax upon your soul
Your heart she would likely steal
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
I met in the county Down
At the harvest fair she'll be surely there
I am dressed in my Sunday clothes
And with my shoes shone bright, with my hat upright
For a smile from the nutbrown rose
No pipe I'll smoke and no horse I'll yoke
'Til my plough is the rust-colour brown
'Til my smiling bride by my own fireside
Sits the star of the county Down
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
I met in the county Down
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
I met in the county Down
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
I met in the county Down
One morning last July
Down the boreen green came a sweet colleen
She smiled as she passed me by
She looked so neat from her two bare feet
To the sheen of her nutbrown hair
Such a coaxin' elf, I did shake myself
To make sure I was really there
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
I met in the county Down
As she onward sped sure I stretched my head
And I gazed with a feeling rare
Oh and said, says I, to a passerby
Who's the maid with the nutbrown hair?
He smiled at me and with pride says he
That's the gem of old Ireland's crown
And she's young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann
The star of the county Down
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
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 hang on each note from her lillywhite throat
As she lilted an irish tune
And at the pattern dance you'll be held in trance
As she skipped through a jig or a reel
And when her eyes she'd roll coax upon your soul
Your heart she would likely steal
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
I met in the county Down
At the harvest fair she'll be surely there
I am dressed in my Sunday clothes
And with my shoes shone bright, with my hat upright
For a smile from the nutbrown rose
No pipe I'll smoke and no horse I'll yoke
'Til my plough is the rust-colour brown
'Til my smiling bride by my own fireside
Sits the star of the county Down
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
I met in the county Down
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
I met in the county Down
From Bantry bay up to Derry quay
From Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen
I met in the county Down
Writer: Traditional, Mike Batt
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