The Town I Loved So Well-The Dubliners

[ti:The Town I Loved So Well] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:20 Greatest Hits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Town I Loved So Well (我曾深爱的小镇) - The Dubliners [00:16.98]In my memory I will always see [00:24.40] [00:25.09]The town that I have loved so well [00:33.00]Where our school played ball by the gasyard wall [00:40.90]And we laughed through the smoke and the smell [00:46.51] [00:49.20]Going home in the rain running up the dark lane [00:55.85] [00:56.67]Past the jail and down behind the fountain [01:02.35] [01:04.40]Those were happy days in so many many ways [01:11.97] [01:12.75]In the town I have loved so well [01:18.27] [01:20.24]In the early morning the shirt-factory horn [01:28.24] [01:28.78]Called women from craigeen the moor and the bog [01:36.22] [01:36.90]While the man on the dole played the mother's role [01:43.84] [01:44.55]Fed the children and then trained the dogs [01:51.32] [01:52.74]And when times got rough there was just about enough [02:00.33]But they saw it through without complaining [02:07.47] [02:08.59]For deep inside was a burning pride [02:15.89] [02:16.63]In the town I loved so well [02:22.90] [02:24.50]There was music there in the derry air [02:32.05] [02:32.93]Like a language that we could all understand [02:39.02] [02:40.98]I remember the day when I earned my first pay [02:48.91]As I played in the small pick-up band [02:55.69] [02:57.21]There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth [03:04.55] [03:05.20]I was sad to leave it all behind me [03:12.29] [03:13.06]For I'd learned about life and I've found a wife [03:20.37] [03:21.15]In the town I loved so well [03:26.19] [04:01.33]But when I returned how my eyes have burned [04:09.25] [04:09.79]To see how a town could be brought to its knees [04:17.84]By the armoured cars and the bombed-out bars [04:25.35] [04:25.88]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze [04:32.52] [04:33.84]Now the army's installed by that old gasyard wall [04:41.86]And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher [04:48.71] [04:49.93]With their tanks and their guns [04:53.75]Oh my god what have they done [04:56.96] [04:57.91]To the town I loved so well [05:04.38] [05:06.49]Now the music's gone but I still carry on [05:13.02] [05:13.94]For their spirit's been bruised never broken [05:21.43] [05:22.32]They will not forget for their hearts are aset [05:30.38]On tomorrow and peace once again [05:36.93] [05:38.10]For what's done is done and what's won is won [05:45.36] [05:46.34]And what's lost is lost and gone forever [05:52.21] [05:53.95]I can only pray for a bright brand new day [06:01.68] [06:02.44]In the town I loved so well