Story Behind The Song
Wanted to put a different spin on this.
Song Description
A reworking of a Traditional Irish song
| Song Length |
3:47 |
Genre |
World - Celtic, Folk - Traditional |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Restless, Tense |
Subject |
Falling in Love, Love at First Sight |
| Similar Artists |
Dead Can Dance, The Cranberries |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Star Of The County Down
In Banbridge Town near the county Down one morning in July
Down a boreen green comes a sweet colleen and she smiled as she passed me by
Well she looked so neat from her two brown feet to the sheen of her nut brown hair
Such a coaxing elf sure I shook myself to see if she was really there.
Chorus
Oh from Bantry Bay up to Derry quay, from Galway to Dublin town
No maid I?ve seen like the sweet colleen that I met in the county down
As she onward sped sure I shook my head and I felt with a feeling rare
I sez sez I to a passer by who?s the maid with the nut brow hair
He smiles at me and he sez sez he tis the gem of Irelands crown
Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the ban, she?s the star of the county down
At the harvest fair she?ll be surely there so I?ll dress in me Sunday clothes
And I?ll make sheep?s eyes and I?ll tell some lies to win the heart of the nut brown rose
No pipe I?ll smoke no horse I?ll yolk till my plow turns a rusty brown
Till a smiling bride by my own fire side sits the star of the county down.
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