The Town I Loved So Well-Luke Kelly

[00:16.88]In my memory I will always see [00:25.30]The town that I have loved so well [00:33.08]Where our school played ball by the gasyard wall [00:40.91]And we laughed through the smoke and the smell [00:49.09]Going home in the rain running up the dark lane [00:56.68]Past the jail and down behind the fountain [01:04.53]Those were happy days in so many many ways [01:12.80]In the town I have loves so well [01:20.89]In the early morning the shirt-factory horn [01:28.78]Called women from Craigeen the Moor and the Bog [01:36.85]While the man on the dole played the mother's role [01:44.76]Fed the children and then trained the dogs [01:52.74]And when times got tough there was just about enough [02:00.65]But they saw it through without complaining [02:08.58]For deep inside was a burning pride [02:16.60]In the town I loved so well [02:24.64]There was music there in the Derry air [02:32.76]Like a language that we could all understand [02:41.12]I remember the day when I earned my first pay [02:48.99]As I played in the small pick-up band [02:57.03]There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth [03:04.99]I was sad to leave it all behind me [03:13.13]For I'd learned about life and I've found me a wife [03:21.21]In the town I loved so well [03:29.40] [04:01.47]But when I returned how my eyes have burned [04:09.88]To see how a town could be brought to it's knees [04:17.99]By the armoured cars and the bombed-out bars [04:25.91]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze [04:33.93]Now the army's installed by that old gasyard wall [04:42.00]And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher [04:49.71]With their tanks and their guns oh my god what have they done [04:58.17]To the town I loved so well [05:06.08]Now the music's gone but I carry on [05:14.22]For their spirit's been gone but never broken [05:22.32]They will not forget for their hearts are all set [05:30.24]On tomorrow and peace once again [05:38.29]For what's done is done and what's won is won [05:46.25]And what's lost is lost and gone forever [05:54.37]I can only pray for a bright brand-new day [06:02.44]In the town I loved so well [06:13.10]