Star Of The County Down chords by Fiddlers Green

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

The star of the County Down by Fiddlers Green


Verse 1:

         Em        C            G      D
Close to Banbridge town, in the County Down,
    Em             D
one morning last July,
       Em       C            G       D
down a boreen green came a sweet colleen,
        Em             C     D  Em
and she smiled as she passed me by.

Verse 2:
     G                       D
She looked so neat from her two bare feet,
       Em                     D
to the sheen of her nut brown hair.
       Em      C           G       D
Such a coaxing elf, I'd to shake myself,
        Em         C   D  Em
to make sure I was really there.

Chorus:
      G                D
From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay,
         Em               D
and from Galway to Dublin town,
   Em         C            G         D
no maid I've seen like the brown colleen,
       Em         C   D  Em
that I met in the County Down

Verse 3:
       Em     C             G            D
As she onward sped I sure I scratched my head,
      Em                  D
and I said with a feeling rare.
 Em           C      G      D
'A-y-e,' says I to a passer-by,
           Em            C   D     Em
'Who's the maid with the nut brown hair?'

Verse 4:
    G                D
He smiled at me, and then says he,
           Em               D
'She’s the gem of Ireland's crown,
      Em      C              G            D
young Rosie McCann, from the banks of the Bann,
          Em          C   D  Em
she's the Star of the County Down.'

Chorus:
      G                D
From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay,
         Em               D
and from Galway to Dublin town,
   Em         C            G         D
no maid I've seen like the brown colleen,
       Em         C   D  Em
that I met in the County Down

Verse 5:
       Em      C            G       D
At the harvest fair I'll be surely  there,
         Em                 D
and I'll dress in my Sunday clothes.
        Em          C             G      D
With my shoes shone bright and my head upright,
      Em            C   D     Em
and a smile from my nut-brown Rose.

Verse 5:
   G                D
No pipe I smoke, no horse I yoke,
       Em                    D
let my plough with rust turn brown,
       Em      C           G       D
till a smiling bride by my own fireside,
         Em          C   D  Em
sits the star of the County Down.

Chorus:
      G                D
From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay,
         Em               D
and from Galway to Dublin town,
   Em         C            G         D
no maid I've seen like the brown colleen,
       Em         C   D  Em
that I met in the County Down

Chorus:
      G                D
From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay,
         Em               D
and from Galway to Dublin town,
   Em         C            G         D
no maid I've seen like the brown colleen,
       Em         C   D  Em
that I met in the County Down