Close to Banbridge town, in the county Down

One morning last July

Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen

And she smiled as she passed me by;

She looked so neat from her two bare feet,

To the sheen of her nut-brown hair,

Such a coaxing elf, I`d to shake myself,

To make sure I was really there.



From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay,

And from Galway to Dublin town,

Na maid I`ve seen like the brown collen,

That I met in the country Down



As sho onward sped sure I sratched my head

And I said with a feeling rare,

Ay