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The Town I Loved So Well
Phil Coulter

In my memory, I will always see

The town that I have loved so well

Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall

And they laughed through the smoke and the smell

Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane

Past the jail, and down behind the fountain

Those were happy days, in so many, many ways

In the town I loved so well


In the early morning the shirt factory horn

Called women from Creggan, the moor, and the bog

While the men on the dole played a mother's role

Fed the children and then walked the dog

And when times got tough there was just about enough

And they saw it through without complaining

For deep inside was a burning pride

In the town I loved so well


There was music there in the Derry air,

Like a language that we all could understand

I remember the day that I earned my first pay

When 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 found a wife

In the town I loved so well


But when I returned, how my eyes have 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 gas yard 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 I loved so well


Now the music's gone but they carry on

For their spirit's been bruised, never broken

They will not forget, but their hearts are set

On tomorrow and peace once again

For what's done is done and what's won is won

And what's lost is lost and gone for ever

I can only pray for a bright, brand new day

In the town I love so well


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