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Artist/Band: The High Kings
Lyrics for Song: Star Of The County Down
Lyrics for Album: Memory Lane [2011]



Near Banbridge town, in the County Down

One evening last July

Down a bóithrín green came a sweet cailín

And she smiled as she passed me by.

She looked so neat in her two bare feet

To the sheen of her nut-brown hair

Such a coaxing elf, I'd to shake myself

To make sure I was standing there.



From Bantry Bay down to Derry Quay

From Galway to Dublin town

No maid I've seen like the fair cailín

That I met in the County Down.



As she onward sped I shook my head

And I gazed with a feeling queer

And I said, says I, to a passerby

"Who's your one with the nut-brown hair?"

He smiled at me, and with pride says he,

"She's the gem of old Ireland's crown.

Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann

And the star of the County Down."



From Bantry Bay down to Derry Quay

From Galway to Dublin town

No maid I've seen like the fair cailín

That I met in the County Down.



She'd a soft brown eye and

a look so sly and a smile like the rose in June

And you held each note from her auburn throat,

as she lilted lamenting tunes

At the pattern dance you'd be in trance

as she skipped through a jig or reel

When her eyes she'd roll, as she'd lift soul

And your heart she would likely steal



From Bantry Bay down to Derry Quay

From Galway to Dublin town

No maid I've seen like the fair cailín

That I met in the County Down.



At the harvest fair she'll be surely there

and I'll dress my Sunday clothes

With my hat cocked right and my shoes shon bright

for a smile from the nut-brown Rose

No horse I'll yoke, or pipe I smoke,

'til the rust in my plough turn brown

And a smiling bride by my own fireside

sits the star of the County Down



From Bantry Bay down to Derry Quay

From Galway to Dublin town

No maid I've seen like the fair cailín

That I met in the County Down.



She'd a soft brown eye and

a look so sly and a smile like the rose in June

And you held each note from her auburn throat,

as she lilted lamenting tunes

At the pattern dance you'd be in trance

as she skipped through a jig or reel

When her eyes she'd roll, as she'd lift soul

And your heart she would likely steal



From Bantry Bay down to Derry Quay

From Galway to Dublin town

No maid I've seen like the fair cailín

That I met in the County Down.



Near Banbridge town, in the County Down

One evening last July

Down a bóithrín green came a sweet cailín

And she smiled as she passed me by.

She looked so neat in her two bare feet

To the sheen of her nut-brown hair

Such a coaxing elf, I'd to shake myself

To make sure I was standing there.



From Bantry Bay down to Derry Quay

From Galway to Dublin town

No maid I've seen like the fair cailín

That I met in the County Down.



From Bantry Bay down to Derry Quay

From Galway to Dublin town

No maid I've seen like the fair cailín

That I met in the County Down.



From Bantry Bay down to Derry Quay

From Galway to Dublin town

No maid I've seen like the fair cailín

That I met in the County Down.


Album Lyrics: Memory Lane [2011]


The High Kings
"Memory Lane [2011]"


1. Step It Out Mary
2. As I Roved Out
3. The Fields Of Athenry
4. On the One Road
5. Raglan Road
6. Whiskey In The Jar
7. Leaving Of Liverpool
8. Red Is The Rose
9. Star Of The County Down
10. Boolavogue
11. Cavan Girl
12. The Rising Of The Moon
13. Green Fields Of France
14. The Irish Rover