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Star Of the County Down

from Like the Willow Tree 1994 by Atwater-Donnelly

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Star Of the County Down
Traditional Irish (our version comes from both Ireland and eastern Kentucky)

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Near Banbridge Town in the County Down
One morning last July
Down the boreen came a sweet colleen
And she smiled as she passed me by
She looked so sweet fronn her two bare feet
To the crown of her nut-brown hair
Such a winsome elf, that I pinched myself
For to see I was really there

Chorus:
From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay
And from Galway to Dublin Town,
No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
That I met in the County Down

Instrumental

As she onward sped, sure I scratched my head,
And I looked with a feeling rare,
And I says, says I, to a passer-by,
"Whose that maid with the nut-brown hair"?
He smiled at me and he says's to me,
"That's the gem of Ireland's crown.
Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann,
She's the star of the County Down"...Chorus

Instrumental

At the Harvest Fair, she'll be surely there
So I'll dress in my Sunday clothes,
With my shoes shined bright and my hat cocked right
For a smile from the nut-brown rose.
No pipe I'll smoke, no horse I'll yoke
Till my plough is a rust colored brown
Till smiling bright, by my own firelight
Is the star of the County Down...Chorus 2X

Instrumental

credits

from Like the Willow Tree 1994, released April 9, 1994
Aubrey Atwater: guitar, tin whistle
Elwood Donnelly: vocals
Steve LaValley: paddle drum, low C tin whistle
Everett Brown: violin

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Atwater-Donnelly Warren, Rhode Island

Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly, present delightful programs of traditional American and Celtic folk songs, a capella pieces, old-time gospel songs, dance tunes, and original works, blending gorgeous harmonies with guitar, Appalachian mountain dulcimer, mandolin, tin whistle, harmonica, banjo, bones, spoons, limberjacks, and Appalachian clog dancing and French Canadian footwork. ... more

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