The Town I Loved So Well-The Dubliners

[ti:The Town I Loved So Well] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:Classic Irish Love Ballads] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Town I Loved So Well (我曾深爱的小镇) - The Dubliners [00:17.38]In my memory i will always see [00:25.55] [00:26.06]The town that i have loved so well [00:33.18] [00:33.83]Where our school played ball by the gasyard wall [00:41.35] [00:41.91]And we laughed through the smoke and the smell [00:48.39] [00:49.92]Going home in the rain running up the dark lane [00:57.68]Past the jail and down behind the fountain [01:03.57] [01:05.28]Those were happy days in so many many ways [01:14.05]In the town i loved so well [01:19.98] [01:22.28]In the early morning the shirt-factory horn [01:29.75] [01:30.34]Called women from craigeen the moor and the bog [01:38.44]While the man on the dole played the mother's role [01:46.37]Fed the children and then trained the dogs [01:53.23] [01:54.33]And when times got tough there was just about enough [02:01.67] [02:02.19]But they saw it through without complaining [02:09.28] [02:10.30]For deep inside was a burning pride [02:18.51]In the town i loved so well [02:24.98] [02:26.79]There was music there in the derry air [02:34.96]Like a language that we all could understand [02:43.07]I remember the day that i earned my first pay [02:51.13]When i played in the small pick-up band [02:58.04] [02:59.32]There i spent my youth and to tell you the truth [03:06.95] [03:07.55]I was sad to leave it all behind me [03:14.52] [03:15.51]For i'd learned about life and i found a wife [03:23.43] [03:23.94]In the town i loved so well [03:30.58] [04:04.37]But when i returned how my eyes have burned [04:12.94]To see how a town could be brought to it's knees [04:20.47] [04:21.12]By the armored cars and the bombed-out bars [04:28.74] [04:29.30]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze [04:36.05] [04:37.22]Now the army's installed by that old gasyard wall [04:44.96] [04:45.56]And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher [04:52.46] [04:53.22]With their tanks and their guns [04:57.34]Oh my god what have they done [05:01.17] [05:01.93]To the town i loved so well [05:08.58] [05:10.09]Now the music's gone but they carry on [05:18.07]For their spirit's been bruised never broken [05:25.63] [05:26.21]They will not forget but their hearts are set [05:33.88] [05:34.42]On tomorrow and peace once again [05:40.31] [05:42.20]For what's done is done and what's won is won [05:50.49]And what's lost is lost and gone forever [05:57.74] [05:58.54]I can only pray for a bright brand-new day [06:06.35] [06:06.92]In the town i loved so well