Bardic Near Banbridge Town lyrics

Near Banbridge Town by Bardic

Near Banbridge Town lyrics

Near Banbridge Town in  the county Down 
One morning last July 
Down a boreen green came a sweet coleen 
And she smiled as she passed me by 
She looked so sweet from her two bare feet 
To the sheen of her nut-brown hair 
Such a coaxing elf, sure I shook myself 
For to see I was really there 

From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay, 
And from Galway to Dublin town 
No maid I’ve seen like the brown coleen 
That I met in the county Down 

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 
Who‘s the maid with the nut-brown hair? 
He smiled at me and then says he 
That‘s the gem of the Irelands crown. 
Young Rosie McCann from the Banks of the Bann 
She’s the sta rof the county Down 

At the harvest fair she’ll be surely there, 
So I dress in my Sunday clothes 
With  my shoes shone bright and my hat cocked right 
For a smile from my nut-brown Rose 
No pipe I’ll smoke, no horse I‘ll yoke, 
Till my plough is a rust-coloured brown 
Till a smiling bride by my own fireside, 
Sits the star of the county Down