The Town I Loved So Well-Phil Coulter

[ti:The Town I Loved So Well] [ar:Phil Coulter] [al:The Songs I Love So Well] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Town I Loved So Well (我曾深爱的小镇) - Phil Coulter (菲尔·柯尔特) [00:08.94]In my memory I will always see [00:16.32] [00:18.49]The town that I have loved so well [00:24.52] [00:25.47]Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall [00:32.40] [00:33.86]And they laughed through the smoke and the smell [00:38.83] [00:42.07]Going home in the rain running up the dark lane [00:49.25] [00:50.35]Past the jail and down behind the fountain [00:55.90] [00:58.76]Those were happy days in so many many ways [01:06.36] [01:07.44]In the town I loved so well [01:12.53] [01:15.87]In the early morning the shirt factory horn [01:22.61] [01:24.20]Called women from Creggan the moor and the bog [01:31.15] [01:32.58]While the men on the dole played a mother's role [01:39.89] [01:40.90]Fed the children and then walked the dog [01:45.82] [01:48.94]And when times got tough there was just about enough [01:56.08] [01:57.25]And they saw it through without complaining [02:02.63] [02:06.00]For deep inside was a burning pride [02:13.15] [02:14.49]In the town I loved so well [02:19.58] [02:22.67]There was music there in the Derry air [02:29.70] [02:31.16]Like a language that we all could understand [02:38.38] [02:39.50]I remember the day that I earned my first pay [02:46.49] [02:47.68]When I played in a small pick-up band [02:52.38] [02:55.76]There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth [03:03.17] [03:04.05]I was sad to leave it all behind me [03:09.96] [03:12.67]For I learned about life and I found a wife [03:19.61] [03:21.23]In the town I loved so well [03:26.31] [03:37.79]But when I returned how my eyes have burned [03:44.95] [03:46.15]To see how a town could be brought to it's knees [03:53.21] [03:54.48]By the armoured cars and the bombed-out bars [04:01.63] [04:02.82]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze [04:08.44] [04:10.94]Now the army's installed by that old gas yard wall [04:18.35] [04:19.20]And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher [04:24.75] [04:27.79]With their tanks and their guns [04:30.96] [04:31.86]Oh my god what have they done [04:35.04] [04:37.14]To the town I loved so well [04:41.37] [04:44.76]Now the music's gone but they carry on [04:51.36] [04:53.37]For their spirits been bruised never broken [05:00.25] [05:01.22]They will not forget but their hearts are set [05:07.98] [05:09.48]On tomorrow and peace once again [05:14.38] [05:17.38]For what's done is done and what's won is won [05:24.82] [05:25.76]And what's lost is lost and gone for ever [05:31.59] [05:34.35]I can only pray for a bright brand new day [05:41.73] [05:43.19]In the town I love so well