The Town I Loved so Well-Hugo Duncan

[ti:The Town I Loved so Well] [ar:Hugo Duncan] [al:Most Requested Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Town I Loved so Well - Hugo Duncan [00:08.66]In my memory I will always see [00:16.48] [00:17.38]The town that I have loved so well [00:25.04] [00:25.64]Where our school played ball [00:29.56]By the gas yard wall [00:33.23] [00:33.94]And they laughed through the smoke and the smell [00:40.48] [00:42.37]Going home in the rain running up the dark lane [00:50.73]Past the jail and down behind the fountain [00:57.85] [00:58.61]Those were happy days in so many many ways [01:07.06] [01:07.60]In the town I loved so well [01:13.92] [01:15.94]In the early morning the shirt factory horn [01:23.84] [01:24.57]Called women from Creggan [01:28.85]The moor and the bog [01:31.98] [01:32.88]While the men on the dole played a mother's role [01:41.11]Fed the children and then walked the dog [01:47.48] [01:49.34]And when times got tough [01:53.24]There was just about enough [01:57.35]But they saw it through without complaining [02:04.97] [02:06.24]For deep inside was a burning pride [02:14.72]In the town I loved so well [02:20.85] [02:23.17]There was music there in the Derry air [02:31.49]Like a language that we could all understand [02:39.15] [02:40.16]I remember the day when I earned my first pay [02:48.29]As I played in a small pick-up band [02:54.52] [02:56.70]There I spent my youth [03:00.73]And to tell you the truth [03:04.87]I was sad to leave it all behind me [03:12.18] [03:13.48]For I learned about life and I found a wife [03:21.10] [03:21.87]In the town I loved so well [03:28.50] [03:30.36]But when I returned how my eyes they burned [03:38.13] [03:38.71]To see how a town could be brought to it's knees [03:46.38] [03:46.99]By the armoured cars and the bombed-out bars [03:55.48]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze [04:02.14] [04:04.01]Now the army's installed by the old gas yard wall [04:12.15]And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher [04:19.60] [04:20.57]With their tanks and their guns [04:24.65]Oh my god what have they done [04:29.05]To the town I loved so well [04:35.51] [04:37.48]Now the music's gone go still carry on [04:45.21] [04:45.88]For their spirit's been bruised never broken [04:53.13] [04:54.32]They will not forget [04:57.47] [04:58.33]Still their hearts are set [05:01.53] [05:02.44]On tomorrow and peace once again [05:09.13] [05:10.88]For what's done is done [05:15.13]And what's won is won [05:19.29]But what's lost is lost and gone for ever [05:27.89]I can only pray for a bright brand new day [05:35.68] [05:36.33]In the town I love so well