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Brown Colleen

Please note: This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.   

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Near Bannbridge-Town in the County Down one morning last July ,

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down a boring green came a sweet colleen and she smiled as she passed

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me by .

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She looked so sweet from her two bare feet to the sheen of her nut-

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brown hair.

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Such a coaxing elf, I'd to shake myself to make sure, I was really there.

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Ref.: /: Oh from Bantry Bay up to Derry Kay and from Galway to Dublin

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Town,

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no maid I have seen like this brown colleen that I met in the County

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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 that maid with the nut brown hair ?".

He smiled at me and he says , says he , shes the gem of  Irelands crown.

Young Rosi McKenn from the banks of the Bann she's the Star of the County Down.

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At the harvest fare , 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 of my nut brown rose:

" No pipe I'll smoke no horse I'll joke til my plough is a rust-coulored brown,

till a smilling bright by my own fireside sits the star of the County-Down!"

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