The Town I Loved So Well

	  		
 

 

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In my memory I will always see 
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the town that I have loved so well 
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Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall 
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and we laughed through the smoke and the smell 
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Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane 
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past the jail and down behind the fountain 
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Those were happy days in so many, many ways 
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in the town I loved so well 

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In the early morning the shirt factory horn 
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called women from Creggan, the Moor and the Bog 
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While the men on the dole played a mother's role, 
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fed the children and then walked the dogs 
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And when times got rough there was just about enough 
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But they saw it through without complaining 
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For deep inside was a burning pride 
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in the town I loved so well 

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There was music there in the Derry air 
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like a language that we could all could understand 
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I remember the day when I earned my first pay 
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As I played in a small pick-up band 
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There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth 
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I was sad to leave it all behind me 
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For I learned about life and I'd found a wife 
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in the town I loved so well 

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But when I returned how my eyes have burned 
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to see how a town could be brought to its knees 
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By the armored cars and the bombed out bars 
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and the gas that hangs on to every tree 
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Now the army's installed by that old gas yard wall 
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and the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher 
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With their tanks and their guns, oh my God, what have they done? 
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to the town I loved so well 

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Now the music's gone but they carry on 
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For their spirit's been bruised, never broken 
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They will not forget but their hearts are set 
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on tomorrow and peace once again 
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For what's done is done and what's won is won 
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and what's lost is lost and gone forever 
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I can only pray for a bright, brand new day 
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in the town I loved so well