The Town I Loved So Well Lyrics

The Town I Loved So Well lyrics

In my memory I will always see 

 The town that I have loved so well 

 Where THE school played ball by the gasyard wall 

 And we laughed through the smoke and THE smell. 

 Goin' home in the rain running up THAT dark lane 

 Past the jail and down BEHIND the fountain 

 THEY were happy days in so many many ways 

 In the town I loved so well. 

  

 In the early morn the shirt factory horn 

 Called women from Creggan, the Moor and the Bog 

 WOMEN ON THE DOLE  played a mothers role 

 Fed the children and ----- walked the dog 

 BUT when times got rough, there was just about enough 

AND 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 ---- we --- all COULD 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 MYSELF A wife 

 In the town I loved so well. 

  

 But when I returned how my eyes HAVE burned 

 To see how a LAND could be brought to it´s knees 

 WITH THEIR armoured cars and the bombed out bars 

 And the gas that hangs on to every breeze 

 Now the army´s installed by that---- gasyard wall 

 And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher 

 With their tanks and THEIR guns 

 Oh my God, what have they done 

 To the town THAT I loved so well. 

  

 Now the music´s gone but they STILL carry on 

 For their spirit´s been bruised, never broken 

 THEY WILL not forget BUT their hearts are ALL 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 ----- brand new day 

 In the town I loved so well