The Town I Loved So Well-Shannon Singers

[ti:The Town I Loved So Well] [ar:Shannon Singers] [al:The Town I Loved So Well] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Town I Loved So Well (我曾深爱的小镇) - Shannon Singers [00:21.08]In my memory i will always see [00:30.09] [00:30.83]The town that i have loved so well [00:38.98] [00:39.56]Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall [00:47.83] [00:48.36]And they laughed through the smoke and the smell [00:56.70] [00:57.61]Going home in the rain running up the dark lane [01:05.96] [01:06.65]Past the jail and down behind the fountain [01:14.41] [01:15.50]Those were happy days in so many many ways [01:24.06] [01:24.65]In the town i loved so well [01:32.16] [01:33.94]In the early morning the shirt factory horn [01:42.06] [01:42.68]Called women from creggan the moor and the bog [01:51.71]While the men on the dole played a mother's role [02:00.17] [02:00.69]Fed the children and then walked the dog [02:07.99] [02:09.91]And when times got tough there was just about enough [02:18.75]And they saw it through without complaining [02:26.42] [02:27.97]For deep inside was a burning pride [02:36.93]In the town i loved so well [02:43.44] [02:55.14]There was music there in the derry air [03:03.96]Like a language that we all could understand [03:13.07]I remember the day that i earned my first pay [03:22.01]When i played in a small pick up band [03:29.53] [03:31.31]There i spent my youth and to tell you the truth [03:40.05]I was sad to leave it all behind me [03:48.28] [03:49.25]For i learned about life and i found a wife [03:58.21]In the town i loved so well [04:05.24] [04:07.48]But when i returned how my eyes have burned [04:15.76] [04:16.72]To see how a town could be brought to it's knees [04:25.37]By the armoured cars and the bombed out bars [04:34.30]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze [04:42.12] [04:43.62]Now the army's installed by that old gas yard wall [04:52.39]And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher [05:00.46] [05:01.62]With their tanks and their guns [05:06.02]Oh my god what have they done [05:09.94] [05:10.51]To the town i loved so well [05:17.94] [05:19.79]Now the music's gone but they carry on [05:28.00] [05:28.63]For their spirits been bruised never broken [05:37.57]They will not forget but their hearts are set [05:46.09] [05:46.61]On tomorrow and peace once again [05:54.01] [05:55.70]For what's done is done and what's won is won [06:04.61]And what's lost is lost and gone for ever [06:12.65] [06:13.59]I can only pray for a bright brand new day [06:22.27] [06:22.83]In the town i love so well