Key: E minor
Intro 1
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Bm
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Verse 1
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One morning last July,
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Down the borin' came a brown cowleen,
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And she smiled as she passed me by.
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To the crown of her nut -brown hair.
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Such a winsome elf
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that I pinched myself for to
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From Bantry Bay up to Derry Cay
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No old maid I've seen
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that I met in the county town
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scratched my head
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And I said, says I, to a passer -by
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who's that maid with the nut -brown hair
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He smiled at me as he said to me,
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She's a gem of Ireland's crown.
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Young Rosie McCann,
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from the banks of the Bann,
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From Bantry Bay up to Derry Cay,
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From Galway to Dublin Town,
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No maid I've seen like the Brown Colleen
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That I met in the County Down.
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At the Harvest Fair, she'll be surely there
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So I'll dress in my Sunday clothes
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With my shoes shine bright
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and my hat crack bright
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No pipe, I'll smoke, no horse, I'll yoke
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Till my flowers are rust -colored brown
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Till smiling bright by my own firelight
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From Bantry Bay up to Derry Cay
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No maid I've seen like the Brown Colleen
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That I met in the County Down
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From Bantry Bay up to Derry Cay
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No maid I've seen like the
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Brown Colleen
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