The Town I Loved so Well (Phil Coulter)

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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 the gas-yard wall

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And we laughed through the smoke and the smell.

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Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane,

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Past the jail and down behind the fountain.

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Those were happy days in so many many ways

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In the town I loved so well.

In the early morning the shirt factory's horn

Called women from Creggan, the Moor and the bog

While men on the dole played a mother's role

Fed the children and trained the dogs.

And when times got tough, there was just about enough

But they saw it through without complaining

For deep inside was a burning pride

In the town I love so well.

There was music there in the Derry air

Like a language we all could understand.

I remember the day when I earned my first pay,

And I played in a small pick up band.

There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth

I was sad to leave it all behind me

For I learned about life and I'd found a wife

In the town I love so well.

But when I returned, oh, my eyes, how they burned

To see how a town could be brought to its knees

By the armoured cars and the bombed out bars

And the gas that hangs on to everything

Now the army's installed by the gasyard wall

And their barbed wire gets higher and higher

With their tanks and their guns, oh, my God, what have they done

To the town I loved so well

Though the music has gone we must carry on

Our spirit's been bruised but never broken

We must never forget that our hearts are still 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 new day

For the town I loved so well.

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