Karaoké The Town I Loved So Well The Dubliners

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 we laughed through the smoke and the smell

Goin' home in the rain

Runnin' up the dark lane

Past the gaol and down behind the fountain

Those were happy days in so many, many ways in the town I loved so well

In the early mornin' the shirt factory horn called women from Creggan

The Moor and the Bog

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

Fed the children and then trained the dogs

And when times got tough there was just about enough but they saw it through without complainin'

For deep inside was a burnin' 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 when 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 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 the 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 forever

I can only pray for a bright brand new day in the town I loved so well