Star Of The County Down Chords by The High Kings

Near Banbridge town in the county down one evening last July down a boring green came a sweet Connie
And she smiled as she passed me by
She looked so neat and her two bare feet and the sheen in her not brown hair
Such a coaxing elf had to shake myself to make sure I was [G] standing there
From Manchury bed down to Derry Cairn from Galway to Dublin town
Oh mate, I've seen like the fair [A] Colleen that I met [E] in the county down
She on her words bed [A] and I shook [Em] me head and I guess with [D] the feeling quared
And [Em] I says as I to [F#m] a passerby or [G] show one [D] with a nut [E] brown hair
[G] He smiled at me [A] and with [Em] prances he she's the gem [D] of old Ireland's crown [E] young Rosie
We can [G] for the banks of the bonnet the star of the county down from Bantry bed
And Derry Cairn from Galway to [D] Dublin town No, [G] mate
I've seen like the fair Colleen that I met in the county down
Jesus off brown I and I love so [Em] slain a smile like a [Bm] rose in June [G] and you have these not in there
Oh, but thought she loved the laments and tunes
But the pot didn't [D] answer me in [Em] a trance as she skipped through a [D] jigger or feel
_ [Em] When I [G] rise she roller she lift your [Em] soul and your [D] heart
She would [Em] likely steal [G] from Bantry [D] bed and Derry [Em] Cairn from [Bm] Galway to Dublin town [Em] No, mate
I've seen like the fair Colleen that I [D] met in the [Em] county down
The harvest [G] fish be [D] surely there [Em] and I'll [Bm] dress in me Sunday clothes
[Em] But me hot cock [G] right and me [D] shoes shine bright [Em] for a [D] smile from the [Em] nut brown rose
[G] No horse I'll [D] yoke no pipe I'll [Em] smoke over the rest of me [Bm] plough turn brown
[Em] I'm just lying buried by my [D] own fireside.
It's the star of the [G] county down from Bantry [D] bed
And Derry [Em] Cairn from Galway to [Bm] Dublin town.
[G] No, mate.
I've seen like the fair Colleen that I met in the [Em] county down
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_ _ She's a soft brown [D] eye and a look so [E] sly and a smile like a rose in June [B] and you have these [D] not in there
Oh, but [G] thought she loved the [Em] laments and tunes.
[G] But the pot didn't [Dm] answer me in a [Em] trance as she skipped through a [D] jigger or _ feel
[Em] When I rise she [G] roller she [D] lift your soul and your heart she would [Em] likely steal
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[D] _ [Em] _ [D] _ [Em] _ [G] From Bantry [D] bed and Derry [Em] Cairn from Galway to [Bm] Dublin town [Em] No, mate
[G] I've seen like the [D] fair [Em] Colleen that [D] I met in the [Em] county down near Palm Bridge [G] town in [D] the county [Em] down on even [Bm] last
July [Em] down a boring [G] green
Give a [D] sweet [G] Colleen and she smiled as [Em] she passed me by
[G] She looked [D] so neat in her two bare [Em] feet in the sheen of [Bm] her nut brown hair
[Em] So she pokes an [G] elf like [D] to shake me [F#] south to make sure I was standing [G] there
From Bantry [D] bed and Derry [Em] Cairn from Galway [Bm] to Dublin town
[G] Made I seem like [D] affair [G] Waleed that I met in [D] the county [Em] down [G] Oh
From Bantry [D] Bay down to [Em] Terrykay, from Galway [Bm] to Dublin Town, no.
[Em] Made [G] I seem like [D] a fair [Em] Colleen that I met in [D] the County [Em] Down.
[G] From Bantry [D] Bay down to Terrykay, [Em] from Galway [Bm] to Dublin Town, no.
[Em] Made I seem [D] like a fair [Em] Colleen that I [D] met in the [Em] County Down. _ _
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