The Town I Loved So Well-The High Kings

[ti:The Town I Loved So Well] [ar:The High Kings] [al:Live In Ireland] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.55]The Town I Loved So Well - The High Kings [00:02.44]Written by：Philip Michael Coulter [00:03.97] [00:07.17]In my memory I will always see [00:13.00] [00:14.83]The town that I have loved so well [00:20.65] [00:21.93]Where the school played ball by the gasyard wall [00:27.78] [00:29.29]And we laughed through the smoke and the smell [00:33.80] [00:36.87]Going home in the rain running up the dark lane [00:42.71] [00:44.31]Past the jail and down behind the fountain [00:48.78] [00:51.41]Those were happy days in so many many ways [00:58.06] [00:59.49]In the town I loved so well [01:03.63] [01:07.19]In the early morning the shirt factory horn [01:13.31] [01:14.67]Called women from craigeen the moor and the bog [01:20.96] [01:22.36]While the man on the dole played the mother's role [01:28.29] [01:29.94]Fed the children and then walked the dog [01:34.34] [01:37.36]And when times got tough there was just about enough [01:43.94] [01:45.28]But they saw it through without complaining [01:49.84] [01:53.30]For deep inside was a burning pride [01:59.08] [02:00.53]In the town I loved so well [02:04.76] [02:12.09]There was music there in the derry air [02:18.09] [02:19.92]Like a language that we could all understand [02:26.54] [02:27.83]I remember the day when I earned my first pay [02:34.14] [02:35.44]And I played in a small pick up band [02:40.09] [02:43.26]There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth [02:49.87] [02:51.28]I was sad to leave it all behind me [02:56.05] [02:58.93]For I'd learned about life and I found me a wife [03:05.46] [03:07.05]In the town I loved so well [03:11.36] [03:18.67]But when I returned how my eyes had burned [03:24.95] [03:26.73]To see how a town could be brought to it's knees [03:32.98] [03:34.42]With their armored cars and the bombed out bars [03:40.62] [03:42.27]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze [03:47.08] [03:50.06]Now the army's installed by that old gasyard wall [03:56.76] [03:57.92]And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher [04:04.01] [04:05.62]With their tanks and their guns oh my god what have they done [04:12.29] [04:13.72]To the town I loved so well [04:17.98] [04:21.65]Now the music's gone but they carry on [04:27.95] [04:29.44]For their spirit's been bruised never broken [04:35.96] [04:37.58]They will not forget but their hearts are set [04:43.76] [04:45.33]On tomorrow and peace once again [04:49.79] [04:52.77]For what's done is done and what's won is won [04:59.40] [05:00.97]And what's lost is lost and gone forever [05:07.77] [05:08.73]I can only pray for a bright brand new day [05:15.20] [05:16.63]In the town I loved so well [05:21.19] [05:23.98]For what's done is done and what's won is won [05:31.05] [05:32.25]And what's lost is lost and gone forever [05:39.01] [05:40.04]I can only pray for a bright brand new day [05:46.60] [05:47.88]In the town I loved so well