The Pride Of Millstreet

With shoulder length wavy hair of hazel brown She bloomed like a fair rose in the Duhallow town And eyes of dark blue as blue as the ripened sloe With the warmth of sunshine in her cheerful hello A beautiful woman then in her life's prime Though this is going back near six decades in time She hailed from near the place where the rivers do meet The beautiful and charming Pride of Millstreet In her early twenties vivacious and bright One of the fairest in the Star Ballroom on the weekly dance night But the wanderlust in her for the big World out there And her life's journey from Millstreet led her to places elsewhere Cannot say if she married and gave birth to children and cannot even say If she is deceased or living today Far from old Duhallow where her life's journey began And where she grew into a beautiful young woman One i was never to lay eyes on again And only the memories with me now remain Of the beautiful one from near where the rivers do meet When i was a boy she was the Pride of Millstreet.