[Lyric] Star of the County Down (Tinsmith)

In Banbridge town, in the County Down
One morning last July
From a bóithrín green came a sweet cailín
And she smiled as she passed me by
She looked so sweet from her two brown feet
To the crown of her nut brown hair
Such a winsome elf, sure I pinched myself
For to see she was really there

As she onward sped, sure I scratched my head
And I looked with a feelin' rare
And I said, says I, to a passerby
"Who's the maid with the nut brown hair?"
He smiled at me and he said, says he
"She's the star of Ireland's crown
Young Rosie McGann from the banks of the Bann
She's the star of the County Down"

From Bantry Bay unto Derry Quay
And from Galway to Dublin town
No maid I've seen like the sweet cailín
That I met at the County Down
At the harvest fair, surely she will be there
And I'll dress in my Sunday clothes
With my hat cocked right and my shoes shined bright
For a smile from my nut brown rose
No pipe I'll smoke, no horse I'll yoke
'Til my plow is a rust coloured brown
'Til shinin' bright, by my own firelight
Is the star of the County Down
'Til my plow is a rust coloured brown
'Til shinin' bright, by my own firelight
Is the star of the County Down