Star Of County Down Chords by The High Kings

Well, I don't suppose many of you, or do any of you, have any words of Irish, saas gaeilge, at all?
_ You?
You do.
Well that's good, we need, we need, well, we threw a couple of words into this next song.
Will you sing them with us?
We teach you. _
If you speak Irish, you can help the people that don't speak Irish.
Like me.
I have Coras Ampeir Éireann, I have Bordaise Goire, Down Pat.
No problem.
_ _ Anyway, so it goes from Bantry Bay down to Derry Kay, from Galway to Dublin town,
No maid I've seen like the fair Colleen that I met in the county down.
Here's the Irish bit.
You have _ [F#] it.
Pumpkin music. _ _
_ _ _ Near Bambridge down in the county down, one evening I asked you to lie down,
A boring drink of a sweet tannín, as she smiled as she passed me by.
She looks so neat in her two bare feet, with a sheet of her not brown hair.
Such a coaxing laugh, [F#m] I just shake him myself to make sure [F#] that he was standing there.
From Bantry Bay down to Derry Kay, and from Galway to Dublin town,
No maid I've [F#m] seen like the [F#] fair Colleen I met in the county down.
She onwards [F#m] sped and I shook her me head and I [F#] guessed the feeling were.
I says, says I to her, passer-by, who's your one with the not brown hair?
He smiled at me and with pride says, see she's the gem of old Ireland's grounds.
Young Rose in her gown with the bounce of the band in the style of the county down.
From Bantry Bay [G] down to Derry Kay, from [F#] Galway to Dublin town,
No maid I've seen like the fair Colleen that I met in the county down.
She's a soft brown eye and her look so sly and her smile like a rose in June.
And you held each note in her arm, but the road is filled with laments and tunes.
At the pot and dance she'd be in a trance, she'd skip through [E] a jig or a reel.
_ [F#m] When her eyes she'd roll and she'd lift her soul and your heart she would likely steal.
From Bantry Bay down to Derry Kay, from Galway to [C#m] Dublin town,
[F#m] No maid I've seen like the fair Colleen that I met in the county down.
At the Harvest Fair [A] she'd be surely there [F#m] and I'd rest in me [C#m] Sunday [F#m] clothes.
The weather me heart had got right and me shoes shone bright with a smile from the not brown Rose.
[A] No horse I'll yoke, [E] no [F#m] pipe I'll smoke, but the rest of me blouse [C#m] are [F#m] brown.
I'm a smiling bride by me own [F#m] first eyes, the star of the county down.
[A] From Bantry [E] Bay to [F#m] Derry Kay, Galway to [C#] Dublin town,
[F#m] No maid I've seen [A] like the fair [F#m] Colleen that I met in the county down.
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[F#m] _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [F#] She's a soft brown eye and her look so sly and her smile like a rose in June.
And you held each note in her arm, but the road is filled with laments and tunes.
[F#m] At the pot and [E] dance she'd be in a [F#] trance, she'd skip through [E] a jig or a reel.
[F#m] When her eyes she'd roll and she'd lift her soul and your heart she would likely steal.
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From Bantry [E] Bay to Derry [F#m] Kay, Galway to Dublin town,
No maid I've seen like the fair Colleen that I met in the county down.
Near Banbridge [A] town or the county [F#m] down, one evening [C#m] last July [F#m] down.
A boring green gave her sweet Colleen and she smiled as she passed me by.
She looked so [E] neat with her [Bm] two bare [F#m] feet and the sheet of her [C#m] not brown hair.
[F#m] Such a coaxing [A] elf, I'd shake myself to make sure I was standing there.
From Bantry [E] Bay to [D] Derry [F#m] Kay, Galway to [C#m] Dublin town,
[F#m] No maid I've seen like the fair Colleen that I met in the county down.
From Bantry [Bm] Bay to Derry [F#m] Kay, Galway to [C#m] Dublin town,
[F#m] No maid I've seen like the fair Colleen that I met in the county down.
From Bantry [E] Bay to [Bm] Derry [F#m] Kay, Galway to [C#m] Dublin town,
[F#m] No maid I've seen [A] like the [E] fair [F#m] Colleen that I met in the county down. _ _ _ _ _
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