Lyrics

[Verse 1] 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 [Verse 2] 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 [Chorus] From Bantry Bay up 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 [Verse 3] 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?" [Verse 4] 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" [Chorus] From Bantry Bay up 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 [Verse 5] At the Harvest Fair, she'll be surely there And I'll dress in my Sunday clothes Get my shoes shone bright and my hat cocked right For a smile from my nut-brown rose [Verse 6] No pipe I'll smoke, no horse I'll yoke 'Til my plough turns rust colored brown 'Til a smiling bride, by my own fireside Sits the star of the County Down [Chorus] From Bantry Bay up 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 [Chorus] From Bantry Bay up 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