Star of the County Down Traditional Intro: [Am] [Am] [Am] [Am] Verse 1: In [Am] Banbridge Town in the [C] County [G] Down One [Am] morning [F] last [G] July, Down a [Am] boreen green came a [C] sweet [G] colleen And she [Am] smiled as she [G] passed me [Am] by. She [C] looked so sweet from her [G] two bare feet To the [Am] sheen of her [F] nut brown [G] hair. Such a [Am] coaxing elf, sure I [C] shook my [G] self To make [Am] sure I was [G] really [Am] there. |[Chorus] |From [C] Bantry Bay up to [G] Derry Quay and |From [Am] Galway to [F] Dublin [G] Town, |No [Am] maid I've seen like the [C] sweet col[G]leen |That I [Am] met in the [G] County [Am] Down. Verse 2: As she [Am] onward sped, sure I [C] shook my [G] head, And I [Am] gazed with a [F] feelin' [G] rare, And I [Am] says, says I, to a [C] passer [G]-by, "Who's the [Am] maid with the [G] nut brown [Am] hair?" He [C] smiled at me and he [G] says, says he, "That's the [Am] gem of old [F] Ireland's [G] crown. That's [Am] Rosie McCann from the [C] banks of the [G] Bann, She's the [Am] star of the [G] County [Am] Down." |[Chorus] |From [C] Bantry Bay up to [G] Derry Quay and |From [Am] Galway to [F] Dublin [G] Town, |No [Am] maid I've seen like the [C] sweet col[G]leen |That I [Am] met in the [G] County [Am] Down Verse 3: At the [Am] Harvest Fair she'll be [C] surely [G] there So I'll [Am] dress in my [F] Sunday [G] clothes, With my [Am] shoes shone bright and my [C] hat cocked [G] right For a [Am] smile from my [G] nut brown [Am] rose. No [C] pipe I'll smoke, no [G] horse I'll yoke Till my [Am] plough is a [F] rust coloured [G] brown. Till a [Am] smiling bride by my [C] own fire [G] side Sits the [Am] star of the [G] County [Am] Down. |[Chorus] |From [C] Bantry Bay up to [G] Derry Quay and |From [Am] Galway to [F] Dublin [G] Town, |No [Am] maid I've seen like the [C] sweet col[G]leen |That I [Am] met in the [G] County [Am] Down. Outro: That I [Am] met in the [G] County [Am////] Down