My Lagan Love-The Dubliners

[00:16.86]In my memory I will always see [00:25.28]The town that I have loved so well [00:33.06]Where our school played ball by the gasyard wall [00:40.89]And we laughed through the smoke and the smell [00:49.07]Going home in the rain running up the dark lane [00:56.66]Past the jail and down behind the fountain [01:04.51]Those were happy days in so many many ways [01:12.78]In the town I have loves so well [01:20.87]In the early morning the shirt-factory horn [01:28.76]Called women from Craigeen the Moor and the Bog [01:36.83]While the man on the dole played the mother's role [01:44.74]Fed the children and then trained the dogs [01:52.72]And when times got tough there was just about enough [02:00.63]But they saw it through without complaining [02:08.56]For deep inside was a burning pride [02:16.58]In the town I loved so well [02:24.62]There was music there in the Derry air [02:32.74]Like a language that we could all understand [02:41.10]I remember the day when I earned my first pay [02:48.97]As I played in the small pick-up band [02:57.01]There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth [03:04.97]I was sad to leave it all behind me [03:13.11]For I'd learned about life and I've found me a wife [03:21.19]In the town I loved so well [03:29.38] [04:01.45]But when I returned how my eyes have burned [04:09.86]To see how a town could be brought to it's knees [04:17.97]By the armoured cars and the bombed-out bars [04:25.89]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze [04:33.91]Now the army's installed by that old gasyard wall [04:41.98]And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher [04:49.69]With their tanks and their guns oh my god what have they done [04:58.15]To the town I loved so well [05:06.06]Now the music's gone but I carry on [05:14.20]For their spirit's been gone but never broken [05:22.30]They will not forget for their hearts are all set [05:30.22]On tomorrow and peace once again [05:38.27]For what's done is done and what's won is won [05:46.23]And what's lost is lost and gone forever [05:54.35]I can only pray for a bright brand-new day [06:02.42]In the town I loved so well [06:13.08]