Star Of The County Down Lyrics - Pogues

Near Banbridge Town in the County Down 

One morning last July 

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 a coaxing elf, sure I shook myself 

For to see I was really there 

From Bantry Bay down 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 feelin' rare 

And I says, says I, to a passer-by 

"Whose the maid with the nut brown hair?" 

He smiled at me and he says's, says's he 

"That's the gem of Ireland's crown 

Young Rosie McCann from the banks of a Bann 

She's the star of the County Down" 

From Bantry Bay down 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 

At the Harvest Fair she'll be surely there 

I'll dress in my Sunday clothes 

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 down 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 down 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