Chords:
{title: Star Of The County Down}
{key: G}
{artist: The Chieftans}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nILXGKFNCAY
{c: Thanks to Susan McCarthy}
In [Em] Banbridge Town in the [G] County [D] Down
One [Em] morning [C] last [D] July
From a [Em] boreen green came a [G] sweet col-[D]leen
And she [Em] smiled as she [D] passed me [Em] by.
She [G] looked so sweet from her [D] two bare feet
To the [Em] sheen of her [C] nut-brown [D] hair
Such a [Em] coaxing elf, sure I [G] shook my [D] self
For to [Em] see I was [D] really [Em] there
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From [G] Bantry Bay up to [D] Derry Quay and
From [Em] Galway to [C] Dublin [D] Town
No [Em] maid I’ve seen like the [G] brown col-[D]leen
That I [Em] met on the [D] County [Em] Down
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As she [Em] onward sped, sure I [G] scratched my [D] head,
And I [Em] looked with a [C] feelin’ [D] rare,
And I [Em] says, I to a [G] passer [D] by
Who’s the [Em] maid with the [D] nut-brown [Em] hair
He [G] smiled and me and he [D] says, says he
“That’s the [Em] gem of [C] Ireland’s [D] crown.
Young [Em] Rosie McCann from the [G] banks of the [D] Bann,
She’s the [Em] Star of the [D] County [Em] Down.”
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From [G] Bantry Bay up to [D] Derry Quay and
From [Em] Galway to [C] Dublin [D] Town
No [Em] maid I’ve seen like the [G] brown col-[D]leen
That I [Em] met on the [D] County [Em] Down
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At the [Em] Harvest Fair, she’ll [G] surely be [D] there
And I’ll [Em] dress in my [C] Sunday [D] clothes,
With my [Em] shoes shone bright and my [G] hat cocked [D] right
For a [Em] smile from my [D] nut brown [Em] rose.
No [G] pipe I’ll smoke, no [D] horse I’ll yoke
Til my [Em] plough turns a [C] rust-coloured [D] brown.
Til a [Em] smiling bride by my [G] own [D] fireside
Sits the [Em] Star of the [D] County [Em] Down
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From [G] Bantry Bay up to [D] Derry Quay and
From [Em] Galway to [C] Dublin [D] Town
No [Em] maid I’ve seen like the [G] brown col-[D]leen
That I [Em] met on the [D] County [Em] Down
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