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EmGD In Banbridge Town in the County Down
EmCD One morning last July,
EmGD From a boreen green came a sweet colleen
EmDEm And she smiled as she passed me by.
GD She looked so sweet from her two bare feet
EmCD To the sheen of her nut brown hair.
EmGD Such a coaxing elf, sure I shook my self
EmDEm For to see I was really there.
GD From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and
EmCD From Galway to Dublin Town,
EmGD No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
EmDEm That I met in the County Down.
 
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EmGD As she onward sped, sure I scratched my head,
EmCD And I looked with a feelin' rare,
EmGD And I says, says I, to a passer-by,
EmDEm "Who's the maid with the nut brown hair?"
GD He smiled at me and he says, says he,
EmCD "That's the gem of Ireland's crown.
EmGD Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann,
EmDEm She's the star of the County Down."
GD From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and
EmCD From Galway to Dublin Town,
EmGD No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
EmDEm That I met in the County Down
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EmGD At the Harvest Fair she'll be surely there
EmCD And I'll dress in my Sunday clothes,
EmGD With my shoes shone bright and my hat cocked right
EmDEm For a smile from my nut brown rose.
GD No pipe I'll smoke, no horse I'll yoke
EmCD Till my plough turns rust coloured brown.
EmGD Till a smiling bride by my own fireside
EmDEm Sits the star of the County Down.
GD From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and
EmCD From Galway to Dublin Town,
EmGD No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
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