The Town I Loved So Well-Sean Dynes

[ti:The Town I Loved So Well] [ar:Sean Dynes] [al:Irish Requested Ballads] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Town I Loved So Well (我曾深爱的小镇) - Sean Dynes [00:09.65]In my memory I will always see [00:17.91] [00:18.91]The town that I have loved so well [00:27.83] [00:28.92]Where our school played ball [00:32.98] [00:33.86]By the gasyard wall [00:37.42] [00:38.03]And we laughed through the smoke [00:41.75]And the smell [00:44.54] [00:46.00]Going home in the rain [00:51.03]Running up the dark lane [00:54.23] [00:55.03]Past the jail and down behind the fountain [01:01.47] [01:03.17]Those were happy days in [01:08.40]So many many ways [01:11.53] [01:12.30]In the town I loved so well [01:18.74] [01:20.06]In the early morning the shirt factory horn [01:28.06] [01:29.31]Called women from Craigeen the Moor [01:34.72]And the Bog [01:37.91] [01:38.97]While the man on the dole played the mother's role [01:47.29] [01:47.87]Fed the children and then walked the dogs [01:53.72] [01:55.60]And when times got tough [01:59.22] [02:00.38]There was just about enough [02:03.77] [02:04.52]But they saw it through without complaining [02:10.89] [02:12.39]For deep inside was a burning pride [02:20.65] [02:21.28]For the town I loved so well [02:27.30] [02:28.88]There was music there in the Derry air [02:36.86] [02:37.75]Like a language that we all could understand [02:45.17] [02:47.22]I remember the day when I earned my first pay [02:55.36] [02:56.03]When I played in the small pick up band [03:00.95] [03:03.82]There I spent my youth [03:07.61] [03:08.18]And to tell you the truth [03:11.57] [03:12.29]I was sad to leave it all behind me [03:18.57] [03:20.05]For I'd learned about life [03:23.56] [03:24.57]And I've found me a wife [03:27.84] [03:28.92]In the town I loved so well [03:33.99] [03:36.44]But when I returned how my eyes have burned [03:44.32] [03:45.33]To see how a town could be brought ti its knees [03:53.94] [03:55.27]By the armored cars and the bombed out bars [04:02.59] [04:03.50]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze [04:09.95] [04:10.84]Now the army's installed by [04:15.36]That old gasyard wall [04:18.66] [04:19.44]And the damned barbwire gets higher and higher [04:24.86] [04:27.02]With their tanks and their guns [04:30.81] [04:31.39]Oh my god what have they done [04:34.34] [04:35.71]To the town I loved so well [04:40.50] [04:43.09]Now the music's gone but they still carry on [04:50.43] [04:51.31]For their spirit's been bruised never broken [04:58.20] [05:01.08]Though they won't forget still hearts are all set [05:08.77] [05:09.46]On tomorrow and peace once again [05:14.68] [05:17.05]For what's done is done and what's won is won [05:24.52] [05:25.55]And what's lost is lost and gone forever [05:32.09] [05:32.97]I can only pray for a bright brand new day [05:40.70] [05:41.53]For the town I loved so well