The Star of County Down-Finbar Wright/Giacomo Puccini

[ti:The Star Of County Down] [ar:Finbar Wright] [al:The Essential] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Star of County Down - Finbar Wright/Giacomo Puccini (普契尼) [00:06.92]Written by：Cathal McGarvey [00:13.84]Near Banbridge Town in the County Down [00:17.14]One morning last July [00:20.03]Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen [00:22.81]And she smiled as she passed me by [00:25.80]She looks on me from her two white feet [00:28.84]To the sheen of her nut brown hair [00:31.88]Such a coaxing elf [00:33.42]I'm ashamed of myself [00:34.93]To make sure I was really there [00:37.44] [00:37.95]From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay [00:41.00]And from Galway to Dublin Town [00:44.02]No maid I've seen like the sweet Colleen [00:47.03]That I met in the County Down [00:49.91] [00:57.81]As I onward sped I shook my head [01:00.72]And I gazed with a feeling queer [01:03.63]Till I said says I to a passerby [01:06.64]Who's the maid with the nutbrown hair [01:09.82]He smiled at me and with pride says he [01:12.97]That's the gem of Ireland's crown [01:15.87]Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann [01:18.94]She's the Star of the County Down [01:21.92]From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay [01:24.95]And from Galway to Dublin Town [01:27.81]No maid I've seen like the sweet Colleen [01:30.97]That I met in the County Down [01:34.14] [01:41.60]At the harvest fair she'll be surely there [01:44.50]So I dress in my Sunday clothes [01:47.74]With my shoes shone bright and my hat cocked right [01:50.83]From a smile from the nutbrown Rose [01:53.91]No pipe I'll smoke no horse I'll yoke [01:57.14]Till my plough is a rust colored brown [02:00.13]Till a smiling bride by my own fireside [02:03.25]Is the Star of the County Down [02:06.32]From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay [02:09.19]And from Galway to Dublin Town [02:12.20]No maid I've seen like the sweet Colleen [02:15.31]That I met in the County Down [02:18.57]From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay [02:21.98]And from Galway to Dublin Town [02:25.29] [02:26.39]No maid I've seen like the sweet Colleen [02:31.24] [02:32.79]That I met in the County Down