[ti:Star of the County Down] [ar:Van Morrison/The Chieftans] [al:Irish Heartbeat] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Star of the County Down - Van Morrison (范·莫里森)/The Chieftans [00:10.84]Written by:Traditional/Van Morrison/Paddy Moloney [00:21.69]In Banbridge town in the county down [00:24.42]One morning last July [00:27.07]From a boreen green came a sweet colleen [00:29.75]And she smiled as she passed me by [00:32.45]She looked so sweet from her two bare feet [00:35.11]To the sheen of her nut brown hair [00:37.79]Such a coaxing elf sure I shook myself [00:40.42]For to see I was really there [00:43.15]From bantry bay up to derry quay and [00:46.16]From Galway to Dublin town [00:48.52]No maid I've seen like the brown colleen [00:51.16]That I met in the county down [00:59.13]As she onward sped sure I scratched my head [01:01.69]And I looked with a feelin' rare [01:04.37]And I say's say's I to a passer by [01:06.94]Whose the maid with the nut brown hair [01:09.65]He smiled at me and he say's say's he [01:12.26]That's the gem of Ireland's crown [01:14.93]It's Rosie mccann from the banks of the Bann [01:17.62]She's the star of the county down [01:20.22]From bantry bay up to derry quay and [01:23.04]From galway to Dublin town [01:25.57]No maid I've seen like the brown colleen [01:28.19]That I met in the county down [01:42.68]At the harvest fair she'll be surely there [01:45.37]And I'll dress in my Sunday clothes [01:47.93]With my shoes shone bright and my hat cocked [01:50.21]Right for a smile from my nut brown rose [01:53.19]No pipe I'll smoke no horse I'll yoke [01:55.99]Till my plough turns rust colored brown [01:58.46]Till a smiling bride by my own fireside [02:01.14]Sits the star of the county down [02:03.84]From bantry bay up to derry quay and [02:06.57]From galway to Dublin town [02:09.13]No maid I've seen like the brown colleen [02:11.71]That I met in the county down [02:14.34]From bantry bay up to derry quay and [02:17.13]From galway to Dublin town [02:19.64]No maid I've seen like the brown colleen [02:22.30]That I met in the county down [02:24.98]From bantry bay up to derry quay and [02:27.67]From galway to Dublin town [02:30.18]No maid I've seen like the brown colleen [02:34.36]That I met in the county down