 He smiled at me with pride and said, see, she's the gem of old Ireland's crown. Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bannan, the star of the county town. From Bantry Bedden to Derrickhead, from Galway to Dublin town. Oh, maid, I've seen like the fair kind that I met in the county town. She had a soft brown eye and a look so sly and a smile like a rosin.