The Town I Loved So Well (我曾深爱的小镇)-John McDermott/Anthony Kearns/Ronan Tynan/Finbar Wright

[ti:The Town I Loved So Well] [ar:John McDermott] [al:The Essential Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Town I Loved So Well (我曾深爱的小镇) - John McDermott/Anthony Kearns/Ronan Tynan/Finbar Wright [00:10.69]In my memory I will always see [00:18.67] [00:21.20]The town that I have loved so well [00:29.99] [00:31.46]Where our school played ball by the gasyard wall [00:39.62] [00:41.85]And we laughed through the smoke and the smell [00:48.14] [00:51.25]Going home in the rain running up the dark lane [01:00.59] [01:01.93]Past the jail and down behind the fountain [01:09.45] [01:12.62]Those were happy days in so many many ways [01:20.69] [01:22.60]In the town I loved so well [01:27.88] [01:33.22]In the early morning the shirt-factory horn [01:41.12] [01:43.05]Called women from Craigeen the Moor and the Bog [01:51.01] [01:52.14]While the man on the dole played the mother`s role [02:01.01] [02:02.79]Fed the children and then trained the dogs [02:10.22] [02:12.45]And when times got tough there was just about enough [02:21.30] [02:22.93]But they saw it through without complaining [02:30.68] [02:33.38]For deep inside was a burning pride [02:41.69] [02:43.27]For the town I loved so well [02:49.57] [02:54.02]There was music there in the Derry air [03:03.17]Like a language that we all could understand [03:12.82]I remember the day when I earned my first pay [03:20.71] [03:22.17]As I played in the small pick-up band [03:27.97] [03:31.36]There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth [03:39.91] [03:41.74]I was sad to leave it all behind me [03:48.09] [03:52.04]For I`d learned `bout life and I`ve found me a wife [03:59.91] [04:02.13]In the town I loved so well [04:15.64] [04:22.75]But when I returned how my eyes have burned [04:31.56] [04:32.96]To see how a town could be brought ti its knees [04:41.61] [04:42.62]By the armored cars and the bombed-out bars [04:50.44] [04:52.23]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze [04:58.55] [05:02.32]Now the army`s installed by that old gasyard wall [05:12.16]And the damned barbwire gets high and higher [05:19.98] [05:22.52]With their tanks and their guns [05:26.39] [05:27.56] oh my god what have they done [05:30.80] [05:33.05]To the town I loved so well [05:40.56] [05:43.82]Now the music`s gone but they still carry on [05:54.69] [05:57.63]For their spirit`s been bruised but never broken [06:07.59] [06:10.30]They will not forget for their hearts are all set [06:20.04] [06:22.08]On tomorrow and peace once again [06:28.62] [06:33.06]For what`s done is done and what`s won is won [06:41.33] [06:43.25]And what`s lost is lost and gone forever [06:49.82] [06:54.01]I can only pray for a bright brand-new day [07:06.51] [07:08.17]In the town I loved so well