The Town I Loved So Well-Paddy Reilly

[ti:The Town I Loved So Well] [ar:Paddy Reilly] [al:The Best Of Paddy Reilly] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Town I Loved So Well (我曾深爱的小镇) - Paddy Reilly [00:18.46]In my memory i will always see [00:26.26] [00:26.85]The town that i have loved so well [00:34.51] [00:35.27]Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall [00:43.58]And they laughed through the smoke and the smell [00:50.14] [00:51.62]Going home in the rain running up the dark lane [00:59.83] [01:00.54]Past the jail and down behind the fountain [01:07.38] [01:09.03]Those were happy days in so many many ways [01:16.65] [01:17.53]In the town i loved so well [01:23.74] [01:26.30]In the early morning the shirt factory horn [01:33.75] [01:34.45]Called women from creggan the moor and the bog [01:42.30] [01:42.91]While the men on the dole played a mother's role [01:50.90] [01:51.43]Fed the children and then walked the dog [01:57.66] [01:59.26]And when times got tough there was just about enough [02:08.12]And they saw it through without complaining [02:15.17] [02:16.50]For deep inside was a burning pride [02:24.96]In the town i loved so well [02:31.06] [02:33.40]There was music there in the derry air [02:40.85] [02:41.75]Like a language that we all could understand [02:49.48] [02:50.13]I remember the day that i earned my first pay [02:57.85] [02:58.46]When i played in a small pick up band [03:04.45] [03:06.56]There i spent my youth and to tell you the truth [03:14.58] [03:15.15]I was sad to leave it all behind me [03:21.87] [03:23.47]For i learned about life and i found a wife [03:31.88]In the town i loved so well [03:38.52] [03:48.63]But when i returned how my eyes have burned [03:55.82] [03:57.30]To see how a town could be brought to it's knees [04:05.01] [04:05.60]By the armoured cars and the bombed out bars [04:13.88]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze [04:20.33] [04:21.87]Now the army's installed by that old gas yard wall [04:30.75]And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher [04:37.84] [04:39.03]With their tanks and their guns [04:43.44]Oh my god what have they done [04:47.03] [04:47.66]To the town i loved so well [04:54.20] [04:56.16]Now the music's gone but they carry on [05:03.76] [05:04.54]For their spirits been bruised never broken [05:12.19] [05:13.09]They will not forget but their hearts are set [05:21.11] [05:21.71]On tomorrow and peace once again [05:27.88] [05:29.77]For what's done is done and what's won is won [05:37.77] [05:38.70]And what's lost is lost and gone for ever [05:45.77] [05:47.16]I can only pray for a bright brand new day [05:54.90] [05:55.62]In the town i love so well