Karaoké Star of the County Down The Pogues

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 sheen of her nut-brown hair

Such the coaxing elf sure I'd shook myself for I see

I was really there

From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay

And from Galway to Dublin town

No maid I've seen like the brown colleen that I met in the county Down

As she onward sped sure I scratched my head

And I looked with a feeling rare

And I said says I to a passer-by

Who's the maid with the nut-brown hair?

He smiled at me and he say's say's he

That's the gem of Ireland's crown

Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann

She's 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 brown colleen that I met in the county Down

Hey hey hey

At the Harvest fair she'll be surely there

And I'll dress in my Sunday clothes

And my shoes shone bright and my hat cocked right

For a smile from my nut-brown Rose

No pipe I'll smoke

No horse I'll yoke

'Till my plough turns rust colored 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 brown 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 brown colleen that I met in the county Down