Star of County Down - Aideen O‘Brien and The Five Fifths

[00:0.0]Star of County Down - Aideen O'Brien and The Five Fifths
[00:5.93]Near Banbridge town in the County down
[00:8.34]One morning last July
[00:10.56]Down a bóithrín green came a sweet cailín
[00:13.56]And she smiled as she passed me by
[00:16.04]She looked so neat in her two bare feet
[00:18.63]To the sheen of her nut brown hair
[00:21.16]Such a coaxing elf I'd to shake myself
[00:23.55]To make sure I was standing there
[00:26.3]From Bantry Bay down to derry quay
[00:28.87]From Galway to Dublin town
[00:31.33]No maid I've seen like the fair cailín
[00:34.03]That I met in the County down
[00:39.27]As she onward sped I shook my head
[00:41.69]And I gazed with a feeling queer
[00:44.16]And I said says I to a passerby
[00:46.63]Who's your one with the nut brown hair
[00:49.21]He smiled at me and with pride says he
[00:51.68]She's the gem of old Ireland's crown
[00:54.35]Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann
[00:57.0]And the star of the County down
[00:59.49]From Bantry Bay down to derry quay
[01:03.13]From Galway to Dublin town
[01:07.35]No maid I've seen like the fair cailín
[01:11.77]That I met in the County down
[01:20.25]She'd a soft brown eye and
[01:22.38]A look so sly and a smile like the rose in June
[01:28.55]And you held each note from her auburn throat
[01:32.87]As she lilted lamenting tunes
[01:37.02]At the pattern dance you'd be in trance
[01:41.12]As she skipped through a jig or reel
[01:45.27]When her eyes she'd roll as she'd lift soul
[01:49.25]And your heart she would likely steal
[01:53.7]From Bantry Bay down to derry quay
[01:57.92]From Galway to Dublin town
[01:62.18]No maid I've seen like the fair cailín
[01:66.83]That I met in the County down
[02:08.87]There own defact
[02:10.42]With was never hit
[02:12.6]Since my traveling his begun
[02:16.82]What faire sqare ans serrender
[02:20.9]To the time of the rose in can
[02:25.23]With my heart to late
[02:27.07]With my tenong gate
[02:29.37]Did I need to the soller come
[02:33.62]Whan is she went
[02:35.5]And I of know rent from the daro country down
[02:42.03]From Bantry Bay down to derry quay
[02:46.03]From Galway to Dublin town
[02:49.92]No maid I've seen like the fair cailín
[02:54.18]That I met in the County down
[02:63.07]At the harvest fair she'll be surely there
[02:66.63]And I'll dress my Sunday clothes
[02:70.78]With my hat cocked right and my shoes shon bright
[02:75.02]For a smile from the nut brown rose
[02:79.03]No horse pipe I smoke
[02:81.3]'Til the rust in my plough turn brown
[02:87.28]And a smiling bride by my own fireside
[02:91.57]Sits the star of the County down
[02:95.72]From Bantry Bay down to derry quay
[02:99.8]From Galway to Dublin town
[03:03.97]No maid I've seen like the fair cailín
[03:08.3]That I met in the County down
[03:12.38]From Bantry Bay down to derry quay
[03:16.42]From Galway to Dublin town
[03:20.47]No maid I've seen like the fair cailín
[03:28.78]That I met in the County down