Karaoké The Town I Loved So Well Nathan Carter

In my memory

I will always see

The town that I have loved so well

Where our school played ball by the old gasyard wall

And we 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 the women from

Craigeen the Moor and the Bog

While the man on the dole played the mother's role

Fed the children and then they walked the dog

When times got tough there was just about enough

But they saw it through without complaining

For a deep inside was a burning pride

For the town

I loved so well

There was music there in the Derry air

Like a language that we all could all understand

I remember the day when I earned my first pay

I played in the small pick-up band

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 found me a wife

In the town I loved so well

But when I returned how my eyes have burned

To see how a town it could be brought

To its knees by the armored cars and the bombed-out bars

And the gas that hangs on to every breeze

Now the army's installed by that old 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

I loved so well

Now the music's gone but they still carry on

Their spirit's been bruised but 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 forever

I can only pray for a bright brand-new day

In the town

I loved so well

In the town

I loved so well