Tono: E
Introducción: Em D Em
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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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Oh she looked so neat from her two white feet to the sheen of her nutbrown 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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Oh from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quai and from Galway to Dublin town
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no maid I've seen like this brown colleen that I met in the county down.
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Oh from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quai and from Galway to Dublin town
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no maid I've seen like this brown colleen that I met in the county down.
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As she onward sped I shook my head and I gazed with a feeling quare,
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and I said, yes I, to a passer by: "Who's the maid with the nutbrown hair?"
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Oh he smiled at me and with proud he says he: "That's the gem of Ireland's crown.
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She's young Rose Mc Cann from the Banks of the Benn, she's the star of the county down."
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Oh from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quai and from Galway to Dublin town
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no maid I've seen like this brown colleen that I met in the county down.
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Oh from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quai and from Galway to Dublin town
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no maid I've seen like this brown colleen that I met in the county down.
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At the cross roads fair I'll be surely there and I'll dress in my sunday clothes.
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And I'll try sheep's eyes and deludering lies on the heart of the nutbrown rose.
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No pipe I'll smoke and no horse I'll yoke though my plough in the rust turns brown.
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'till a smiling bride by my own fireside sits the star of the county down.
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Oh from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quai and from Galway to Dublin town
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no maid I've seen like this brown colleen that I met in the county down.
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Oh from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quai and from Galway to Dublin town
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no maid I've seen like this brown colleen that I met in the county down.
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Oh from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quai and from Galway to Dublin town
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no maid I've seen like this brown colleen that I met in the county down.