The Town I Loved So Well 
                                    
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In my memo-ry I will always see the town that I have loved so well 
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Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall and we laughed through the smoke and 
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the smell 
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Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane past the jail and down behind the fountain 
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Those were happy days, in so many, many ways in the town I loved so well 
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In the early morning the shirt factory horn called women from Creggan, the Moor and the Bog 
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While the men on the dole played a mother's role fed the children, and then walked the dog 
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And when times got rough there was just about e-nough but they saw it through without com-plaining 
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For deep in-side was a burning pride in the town I love so well 
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There was music there in the Derry air like a language that we could all under-stand 
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I re-member the day, when I earned my first pay as I played in the small pick-up band 
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There I spent my youth, and to tell you the truth I was sad to leave it all be-hind me 
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For I'd learned about life and I'd found me a wife in the town I loved so well 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 
              
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But when I re-turned, how my eyes were burned to see how a town could be brought to its 
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knees 
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By the armoured cars and the bombed out bars and the gas that hangs on to every breeze 
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Now the army's in-stalled by that old gas yard wall and the damned barbed wire gets higher 
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and higher 
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With their tanks and guns, oh my God what have they done to the town I love so well 
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Now the music's gone, but they still carry on though their spirit's been bruised never brok-en 
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And they can't for-get for their hearts are set on to-morrow and peace once a-gain 
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For what's done is done, and what's won is won and what's lost is lost and gone for-ever 
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I can only pray for a bright brand new day in the town I love so well 
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I can only pray for a bright brand new day in the town I(slow) love so well 2 3 4 A