Star Of The County Down - The Kelly Family

Near Banbridge Town in the County Down one morning in July

Down a boreen green came a sweet Colleen and she smiled as she passed me by

Oh she looked so sweet from her two white feet to the sheen of her nut-brown

hair

Sure the coaxing elf, I’d to shake myself to make sure I was standing there

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

At the Harvest Fair I’ll be surely there and I’ll dress in my Sunday clothes

And I’ll try sheep’s eyes and deludhering lies on the heart of the nut-brown

Rose

No pipe I’ll smoke, no horse I’ll yoke tough my plough with rust turns brown

Till a smiling bride by my own fireside sits 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 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

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

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