[ti:The Star Of The County Down] [ar:The Pogues] [al:30 Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Star of the County Down (with Joe Strummer) (Live) - The Pogues/Joe Strummer [00:10.38]Near Banbridge Town in the County Down [00:12.77]One morning last July [00:15.36]A boreen green came a sweet colleen [00:17.88]And she smiled as she passed me by [00:20.51]She looked so sweet from her two bare feet [00:23.02]To the sheen of her nut brown hair [00:25.67]Such a coaxing elf sure I shook myself [00:28.16]For to see I was really there [00:30.81]From Bantry Bay down to Derry Quay [00:33.65]Galway to Dublin Town [00:36.10]No maid I've seen like the brown colleen [00:38.45]That I met in the County Down [00:41.16]As she onward sped sure I scratched my head [00:43.74]And I looked with a feelin' rare [00:46.29]And I says says I to a passer-by [00:48.84]Whose the maid with the nut brown hair [00:51.44]He smiled at me and he says's says's he [00:54.03]That's the gem of Ireland's crown [00:56.63]Young Rosie McCann from the banks of a Bann [00:59.10]She's the star of the County Down [01:01.69]From Bantry Bay down to Derry Quay and [01:04.50]From Galway to Dublin Town [01:06.89]No maid I've seen like the brown colleen [01:09.45]That I met in the County Down [01:32.67]At the Harvest Fair she'll be surely there [01:34.96]I'll dress in my Sunday clothes [01:37.51]My shoes shone bright and my hat cocked [01:40.02]Right for a smile from my nut brown rose [01:42.62]No pipe I'll smoke no horse I'll yoke [01:45.16]Till my plough turns rust colored brown [01:47.67]Till a smiling bride by my own fireside [01:50.25]Sits the star of the County Down [01:52.76]From Bantry Bay down to Derry Quay and [01:55.53]From Galway to Dublin Town [01:57.88]No maid I've seen like the brown colleen [02:00.35]That I met in the County Down [02:02.96]From Bantry Bay down to Derry Quay and [02:05.70]From Galway to Dublin Town [02:08.07]No maid I've seen like the brown colleen [02:19.32]That I met in the County Down