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sporkwielder
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In banbridge town in the county down
one morning last july,
from 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, that i shook myself for to see i was really there.
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.
As she onward sped, sure i scratched my head and i looked with a feelin' rare,
and i say's, say's I, to a passerby,
"Who's the maid with the nut brown hair?"
He smiled at he and he say's, say's he
"That's the gem of Ireland's crown.
That's rosie mcCann from the banks of the Bann,
she's the star of the county down.
At the harvest fair she'll be surely there
and i'll dress in my sunday clothes,
with 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.
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