The Town I Loved So Well-The Dubliners

[ti:The Town I Loved So Well] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:20 Greatest Ever Irish Ballads - Volume 3] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.70]The Town I Loved So Well (我曾深爱的小镇) - The Dubliners [00:04.30] [00:17.19]In my memory I will always see [00:25.68]The town that I have loved so well [00:33.32]Where our school played ball by the gasyard wall [00:41.03]And we laughed through the smoke and the smell [00:48.58] [00:49.23]Going home in the rain running up the dark lane [00:56.87]Past the jail and down behind the fountain [01:04.48]Those were happy days in so many many ways [01:13.09]In the town I loved so well [01:19.85] [01:21.30]In the early morning the shirt-factory horn [01:29.17]Called women from Craigeen the Moor and the Bog [01:37.10]While the man on the dole played the mother`s role [01:45.19]Fed the children and then trained the dogs [01:52.92]And when times got tough there was just about enough [02:01.15]But they saw it through without complaining [02:08.86]For deep inside was a burning pride [02:17.02]In the town I loved so well [02:23.31] [02:24.91]There was music there in the Derry air [02:33.19]Like a language that we all could understand [02:41.29]I remember the day and I earned my first pay [02:49.43]As I played in the small pick-up band [02:57.39]There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth [03:05.47]I was sad to leave it all behind me [03:13.49]For I'd learned about life and I`ve found a wife [03:20.12] [03:21.70]In the town I loved so well [03:28.07] [04:01.39]But when I returned how my eyes have burned [04:10.42]To see how a town could be brought to its knees [04:18.29]By the armored cars and the bombed-out bars [04:26.36]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze [04:34.21]Now the army`s installed by that old gasyard wall [04:42.54]And the damned barbwire gets high and higher [04:50.02]With their tanks and their guns oh my god what have they done [04:58.42]To the town I loved so well [05:05.12] [05:06.64]Now the music's gone but they carry on [05:14.61]For their spirit`s been bruised never broken [05:22.60]They will not forget for their hearts are all set [05:30.79]On tomorrow and peace once again [05:37.57] [05:38.61]For what`s done is done and what`s won is won [05:46.45]And what`s lost is lost and gone forever [05:54.61]I can only pray for a bright brand-new day [06:02.90]In the town I loved so well