{"id":5760,"date":"2023-07-08T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/?p=5760"},"modified":"2023-07-03T14:00:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T14:00:39","slug":"the-star-of-the-county-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/08\/the-star-of-the-county-down\/","title":{"rendered":"The Star of the County Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The Chieftains - The Star of the County Down (Live Over Ireland)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nILXGKFNCAY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Scroll down for the lyrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Near Banbridge town, in the County Down\nOne morning in July\nDown a boreen green came a sweet colleen\nAnd she smiled as she passed me by.\nShe looked so sweet from her two white feet\nTo the sheen of her nut-brown hair\nSuch a coaxing elf, I'd to shake myself\nTo make sure I was standing there.\nChorus\nFrom Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay\nAnd from Galway to Dublin town\nNo maid I've seen like the sweet colleen\nThat I met in the County Down.\n\nAs she onward sped I shook my head\nAnd I gazed with a feeling rare\nAnd I said, says I, to a passerby\n\"Who's the maid with the nut-brown hair?\"\nHe smiled at me, and with pride says he,\n\"That's the gem of Ireland's crown.\nShe's young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann\nShe's the star of the County Down.\"\n\nChorus\n\nI've travelled a bit, but never was hit\nSince my roving career began\nBut fair and square I surrendered there\nTo the charms of young Rose McCann.\nI'd a heart to let and no tenant yet\nDid I meet with in shawl or gown\nBut in she went and I asked no rent\nFrom the star of the County Down.\n\nChorus\n\nAt the crossroads fair I'll be surely there\nAnd I'll dress in my Sunday clothes\nAnd I'll try sheep's eyes, and deludhering lies\nOn the heart of the nut-brown rose.\nNo pipe I'll smoke, no horse I'll yoke\nThough with rust my plow turns brown\nTill a smiling bride by my own fireside\nSits the star of the County Down.\n\nChorus<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scroll down for the lyrics. Near Banbridge town, in the County Down One morning in July Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen And she smiled as she passed me by. She looked so sweet from her two white feet To the sheen of her nut-brown hair Such a coaxing elf, I&#8217;d to shake&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[448],"tags":[544,144,543,545],"class_list":["post-5760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-county-down","tag-ireland","tag-the-chieftanins","tag-traditional-irish-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5761,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions\/5761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}