Karaoké Star of the County Down The Whistlin' Donkeys

Near Banbridge Town in the County Down

One mornin' last July

Down the boreen green came a sweet colleen

She smiled as she passed me by

She looked so neat with her two bare feet and the sheen of her nut brown hair

Such a coaxing elf

Sure I shook me self for to 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 sweet colleen that I met in the County Down

As she onward sped sure I scratched my head and I looked with a feelin' rare

And I said said I to a passer-by

Who's the maid with the nut brown hair

He smiled at me and he said said 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 sweet colleen that I met in the County Down

At the Harvest Fair she'll be surely there and I'll dress in me Sunday clothes

With me shoe shone bright and me hat cocked right for a smile from the nut brown rose

No pipe I'll smoke and no horse I'll yoke 'till me plough is a rust colored brown

And a smilin' 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