Star of the County Down - Rosheen

Near Banbridge town in the County down

One morning last July

Down a bóithrín green came a sweet cailín'

And she smiled as she passed me by

From Bantry Bay down to Derry Quay

From Galway to Dublin town

No maid I've seen like the fair cailín'

That I met in the County down

She looked so neat in her two bare feet

To the sheen of her nut-brown hair

Such a coaxing elf I'd to shake myself

To to see I was really there

From Bantry Bay down to Derry Quay

From Galway to Dublin town

No maid I've seen like the fair cailín'

That I met in the County down

As she onward sped I shook my head

And I gazed with a feeling queer

And I said says I to a passerby

Who's your one with the nut-brown hair

He smiled at me and with pride says he

She's the gem of old Ireland's crown

Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann

And the star of the County down

At the harvest fair she'll be surely there

And I'll dress my Sunday clothes

With my shoes shon bright and my hat cocked right

For a smile from the nut-brown Rose

No pipe I smoke or horse I'll yoke

'Til the plough is my rust turn brown

And a smiling bride by my own fireside

Sits the star of the County down

From Bantry Bay down to Derry Quay

From Galway to Dublin town

No maid I've seen like the fair cailín'

That I met in the County down

From Bantry Bay down to Derry Quay

From Galway to Dublin town

No maid I've seen like the fair cailín'

That I met in the County down