{"id":9768,"date":"2024-10-01T06:05:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T10:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9768"},"modified":"2024-10-01T06:05:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T10:05:54","slug":"the-star-of-county-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9768","title":{"rendered":"The Star of County Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Star_of_County_Down.png\" width=\"900\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"audio_link\">mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Star_of_County_Down.mp3\"><br \/>\nStar of County Down &#8211; Click To Play  <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n<p>This lovely Irish song was written in the 1800s by Cathal MacGarvey from Ramelton, County Donegal. The tune is traditional and has been used in &#8220;Dives and Lazarus&#8221; as well as &#8220;My Love Nell&#8221; and the hymn, &#8220;I Heard The Voice of Jesus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/p>\n<p>[Gm] Near Banbridge Town in the County Down<br \/>\nOne morning last July,<br \/>\nFrom a boreen green came a sweet colleen<br \/>\nAnd she smiled as she passed me by.<br \/>\nShe looked so sweet from her two bare feet<br \/>\nFrom the sheen of her nut brown hair.<br \/>\nSuch a winsome elf, sure I shook myself<br \/>\nFor to see I was really there.<\/p>\n<p>From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and<br \/>\nFrom Galway to Dublin Town,<br \/>\nNo maid I&#8217;ve seen like the fair colleen<br \/>\nThat I met in the County Down.<\/p>\n<p>As she onward sped, sure I scratched my head,<br \/>\nThen I looked with a feeling rare,<br \/>\nAnd I says, says I, to a passer-by,<br \/>\n&#8220;Who&#8217;s the maid with the nut brown hair?&#8221;<br \/>\nHe looked at me and he says, to me,<br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s the gem of the Ireland&#8217;s crown.<br \/>\nYoung Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann,<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s the star of the County Down&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and<br \/>\nFrom Galway to Dublin Town,<br \/>\nNo maid I&#8217;ve seen like the fair colleen<br \/>\nThat I met in the County Down.<\/p>\n<p>At the harvest fair and she&#8217;ll be there<br \/>\nSo I&#8217;ll dress in my Sunday clothes,<br \/>\nWith my shoes shone bright and my hat cocked right<br \/>\nwith a smile for a nut brown rose.<br \/>\nNo pipe I&#8217;ll smoke, no horse I&#8217;ll yoke<br \/>\n&#8216;Til my plough is rusty brown.<br \/>\n&#8216;Til a smiling bride, by me own bedside<br \/>\nSits the star of the County Down.<\/p>\n<p>From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and<br \/>\nFrom Galway to Dublin Town,<br \/>\nNo maid I&#8217;ve seen like the fair colleen<br \/>\nThat I met in the County Down.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mp3: Star of County Down &#8211; Click To Play This lovely Irish song was written in the 1800s by Cathal MacGarvey from Ramelton, County Donegal. The tune is traditional and has been used in &#8220;Dives and Lazarus&#8221; as well as &#8220;My Love Nell&#8221; and the hymn, &#8220;I Heard The Voice of Jesus.&#8221; Lyrics: [Gm] Near &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9768\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Star of County Down&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9768"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9772,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions\/9772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}