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Near Banbridge town, in the County Down, one morning last July
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Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen and she smiled as she passed me by
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She looked so sweet from her two bare feet from the sheen of her nut-brown hair
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Such a coaxing elf, sure I shook myself, for to see I was really there
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From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town
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No maid I've seen like the brown colleen that I met in the County Down
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As she onward sped, sure I scratched my head, and I looked with a feelin' rare
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And I says, says I to a passer by, who's the maid with the nut brown hair
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He smiled at me and he says, says he, that's the gem of the Ireland's crown
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Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann, she's the star of the County Down
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From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town
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No maid I've seen like the brown colleen that I met in the County Down
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At the harvest fair she'll be surely there so I'll dress in my Sunday clothes
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With my shoes shone bright and my hat cocked right, for the smile of a nut brown rose
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No pipe I'll smoke, no horse I'll yoke, till my plough turns a rust coloured brown
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'Till a smiling bride, by my own fireside sits the star of the County Down
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From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town
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No maid I've seen like the brown colleen that I met in the County Down
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From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town
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No maid I've seen like the brown colleen that I met in the County Down
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From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town
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No maid I've seen like the brown colleen that I met in the County Down
