The Town I Love So Well-Paddy Reilly

[ti:The Town I Loved So Well] [ar:Paddy Reilly] [al:At The National Stadium Dublin] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Town I Love So Well - Paddy Reilly [00:53.03]In my memory i will always see [01:01.38] [01:02.11]The town that i have loved so well [01:10.23] [01:11.00]Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall [01:19.07] [01:19.76]And they laughed through the smoke and the smell [01:26.05] [01:28.22]Going home in the rain running up the dark lane [01:36.92] [01:37.63]Past the jail and down behind the fountain [01:43.98] [01:46.59]Those were happy days in so many many ways [01:54.84] [01:55.50]In the town i loved so well [02:01.74] [02:04.52]In the early morning the shirt factory horn [02:12.82] [02:13.47]Called women from creggan the moor and the bog [02:21.15] [02:21.76]While the men on the dole played a mother's role [02:30.30] [02:30.90]Fed the children and then walked the dog [02:36.41] [02:39.44]And when times got tough there was just about enough [02:47.98] [02:48.49]And they saw it through without complaining [02:55.58] [02:57.72]For deep inside was a burning pride [03:06.28] [03:06.92]In the town i loved so well [03:13.50] [03:15.86]There was music there in the derry air [03:23.90] [03:24.63]Like a language that we all could understand [03:33.05] [03:33.76]I remember the day that i earned my first pay [03:42.02] [03:42.84]When i played in a small pick up band [03:49.04] [03:51.55]There i spent my youth and to tell you the truth [04:00.04] [04:00.75]I was sad to leave it all behind me [04:07.26] [04:10.08]For i learned about life and i found a wife [04:18.29] [04:19.02]In the town i loved so well [04:25.11] [04:28.23]But when i returned how my eyes have burned [04:36.58] [04:37.43]To see how a town could be brought to it's knees [04:45.51] [04:46.45]By the armoured cars and the bombed out bars [04:54.67] [04:55.24]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze [05:01.48] [05:03.62]Now the army's installed by that old gas yard wall [05:12.64] [05:13.37]And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher [05:20.25] [05:22.09]With their tanks and their guns [05:27.09]Oh my god what have they done [05:31.10] [05:31.62]To the town i loved so well [05:37.58] [05:40.83]Now the music's gone but they carry on [05:49.27] [05:49.92]For their spirits been bruised never broken [05:58.47] [05:59.06]They will not forget but their hearts are set [06:07.60] [06:08.32]On tomorrow and peace once again [06:14.80] [06:17.17]For what's done is done and what's won is won [06:26.01] [06:26.71]And what's lost is lost and gone for ever [06:33.84] [06:36.14]I can only pray for a bright brand new day [06:44.82] [06:45.47]In the town i love so well