Key: E
Introduction:
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Near to Banbridge town, in the County Down, one morning in July
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Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen and she smiled as she passed me by
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She looked so neat from her two white feet to the sheen of her nut-brown hair
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Sure the coaxing elf, I'd to shake myself, to make sure I was standing there
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From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and from Galway to Dublin town
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No maid I've seen like the sweet colleen that I met in County Down
As she onward sped, sure I shook my head and I gazed with a feeling quare