Town I loved so Well-Paddy Reilly

[ti:Town I loved so Well] [ar:Paddy Reilly] [al:Gold and Silver Days] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Town I loved so Well - Paddy Reilly [00:18.49]In my memory I will always see [00:25.67] [00:26.74]The town that I have loved so well [00:33.89] [00:34.87]Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall [00:42.71] [00:43.65]And they laughed through the smoke and the smell [00:48.84] [00:51.68]Going home in the rain running up the dark lane [00:59.10] [01:00.52]Past the jail and down behind the fountain [01:05.90] [01:08.99]Those were happy days in so many many ways [01:16.39] [01:17.31]In the town I loved so well [01:22.81] [01:26.17]In the early morning the shirt factory horn [01:33.13] [01:34.44]Called women from creggan the moor and the bog [01:41.45] [01:42.92]While the men on the dole played a mother's role [01:50.37] [01:51.41]Fed the children and then walked the dog [01:56.61] [01:59.30]And when times got tough there was just about enough [02:06.77] [02:07.94]And they saw it through without complaining [02:13.44] [02:16.52]For deep inside was a burning pride [02:23.78] [02:24.96]In the town I loved so well [02:30.31] [02:33.25]There was music there in the derry air [02:40.93] [02:41.79]Like a language that we all could understand [02:48.55] [02:50.10]I remember the day that I earned my first pay [02:57.61] [02:58.52]When I played in a small pick up band [03:03.78] [03:06.48]There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth [03:14.41] [03:15.02]I was sad to leave it all behind me [03:20.89] [03:23.40]For I learned about life and I found a wife [03:31.08] [03:31.89]In the town I loved so well [03:36.93] [03:48.64]But when I returned how my eyes have burned [03:55.34] [03:57.22]To see how a town could be brought to it's knees [04:04.40] [04:05.56]By the armoured cars and the bombed out bars [04:12.83] [04:13.91]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze [04:19.64] [04:21.84]Now the army's installed by that old gas yard wall [04:29.96] [04:30.77]And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher [04:37.39] [04:39.04]With their tanks and their guns [04:42.33] [04:43.28]Oh my god what have they done [04:46.16] [04:47.46]To the town I loved so well [04:52.99] [04:56.07]Now the music's gone but they carry on [05:03.04] [05:04.59]For their spirits been bruised never broken [05:11.32] [05:13.15]They will not forget but their hearts are set [05:20.51] [05:21.74]On tomorrow and peace once again [05:26.33] [05:29.82]For what's done is done and what's won is won [05:36.98] [05:38.64]And what's lost is lost and gone for ever [05:44.39] [05:47.07]I can only pray for a bright brand new day [05:54.85] [05:55.72]In the town I love so well