Phil Coulter - The Town I Loved So Well lyrics
rate meIn my memory, I will always see<br />
The town that I have loved so well<br />
Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall<br />
And they laughed through the smoke and the smell<br />
Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane<br />
Past the jail, and down behind the fountain<br />
Those were happy days in so many, many ways<br />
In the town I loved so well<br />
<br />
In the early morning the shirt factory horn<br />
Called women from Creggan, the moor, and the bog<br />
While the men on the dole played a mother's role<br />
Fed the children and then walked the dog<br />
And when times got tough there was just about enough<br />
And they saw it through without complaining<br />
For deep inside was a burning pride<br />
In the town I loved so well<br />
<br />
There was music there in the Derry air,<br />
Like a language that we all could understand<br />
I remember the day that I earned my first pay<br />
When I played in a small pick-up band<br />
There I spent my youth, and to tell you the truth<br />
I was sad to leave it all behind me<br />
For I learned about life, and I found a wife<br />
In the town I loved so well<br />
<br />
But when I returned, how my eyes have burned<br />
To see how a town could be brought to it's knees<br />
By the armoured cars and the bombed-out bars<br />
And the gas that hangs on to every breeze<br />
Now the army's installed by that old gas yard wall<br />
And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher<br />
With their tanks and their guns, oh my god, what have they done<br />
To the town I loved so well<br />
<br />
Now the music's gone but they carry on<br />
For their spirits been bruised, never broken<br />
They will not forget but their hearts are set<br />
On tomorrow and peace once again<br />
For what's done is done and what's won is won<br />
And what's lost is lost and gone for ever<br />
I can only pray for a bright, brand new day<br />
In the town I love so well</
