Town I loved so well, the

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In my memory I will always see
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The town that I have loved so well
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Where our school played ball by 
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the gasyard wall
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And we laughed through the smoke 
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and smell.
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Going home in the rain running up
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 the dark lane
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Past the jail and down beside the 
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fountain
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Those were happy days in so many 
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many ways
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In the town I loved so well.

In the early morn the shirt factory 
horn
Continues after the ad
Called women from Creggan, the Moor 
and the Bog
While the men on the dole played a 
mothers role
Fed the children and then walked the
 dog
And when times got rough, there was 
just about enough
But they saw it through without 
complaining
For deep inside was a burning pride
for the town I loved so well.

There was music there in the Derry 
air
Like a language that we could all 
understand
I remember the day when I earned my 
first pay
as I played in a small pickup band
There I spent my youth and to tell 
you the truth
I was sad to leave it all behind me
For I'd learned about life and I'd 
found a wife
In the town I loved so well.

But when I returned how my eyes were
 burned
To see how a town could be brought 
to it's knees
By the armoured cars and the bombed 
out bars
And the gas that hangs on to every 
breeze
Now the army's installed by that old
 gasyard wall
And the damned barbed wire gets 
higher and higher
With their tanks and guns
Oh my God, what have they done
To the town I loved so well.

Now the music's gone but they carry 
on
For their spirit's been bruised, 
never broken
Oh, they'll not forget still their 
hearts are set
On tomorrow and peace once again
Now what's done is done and what's 
won is won
And what's lost is lost and gone 
forever
I can only pray for a bright brand 
new day
In the town I loved so well.