Near To Banbridge Town

	  		Intro: Em D Em 


Verse 1:
 
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Near to Banbridge town in the county down one morning in July 
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down a boreen green came a sweet colleen and she smiled as she passed me by. 
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Oh she looked so neat from her two white feet to the sheen of her nutbrown hair, 
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sure the coaxing elf I'd to shake myself to make sure I was standing there.
 



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Oh from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quai and from Galway to Dublin town 
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no maid I've seen like this brown colleen that I met in the county down. 
        G                D                   Em               D 
Oh from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quai and from Galway to Dublin town 
   Em             D         G        D           Em             D  Em 
no maid I've seen like this brown colleen that I met in the county down. 



Verse 2:
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As she onward sped I shook my head and I gazed with a feeling quare, 
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and I said, yes I, to a passer by: "Who's the maid with the nutbrown hair?" 
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Oh he smiled at me and with proud he says he: "That's the gem of Ireland's crown. 
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She's young Rose Mc Cann from the Banks of the Benn, she's the star of the county down." 


 
        G                D                   Em               D 
Oh from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quai and from Galway to Dublin town 
   Em             D         G        D           Em             D  Em 
no maid I've seen like this brown colleen that I met in the county down. 
        G                D                   Em               D 
Oh from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quai and from Galway to Dublin town 
   Em             D         G        D           Em             D  Em 
no maid I've seen like this brown colleen that I met in the county down. 



Verse 3:
 
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At the cross roads fair I'll be surely there and I'll dress in my sunday clothes. 
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And I'll try sheep's eyes and deludering lies on the heart of the nutbrown rose. 
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No pipe I'll smoke and no horse I'll yoke though my plough in the rust turns brown. 
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'till a smiling bride by my own fireside sits the star of the county down. 

 
        G                D                   Em               D 
Oh from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quai and from Galway to Dublin town 
   Em             D         G        D           Em             D  Em 
no maid I've seen like this brown colleen that I met in the county down. 
        G                D                   Em               D 
Oh from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quai and from Galway to Dublin town 
   Em             D         G        D           Em             D  Em 
no maid I've seen like this brown colleen that I met in the county down. 



Outro 
        G                D                   Em               D 
Oh from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quai and from Galway to Dublin town 
   Em             D         G        D           Em             D  Em     D D D Em 
no maid I've seen like this brown colleen that I met in the county down.