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In my memory I will always see
the town that I love so well
where our school played ball by the gas yard
wall
and we laughed through the smoke and the smell
going home in the rain running up the dark
lane
past the jail and down behind the fountain
those were happy days in so many, many ways
in the town I loved so well
In the early morning the shirt factory's horn
called women from Creggan, the moor, and the
bog
while the men on the dole played a mothers'
role
fed the children and trained the dogs
and when times got tough there was just about
enough
but we saw it through without complainin'
for deep inside was a burning pride
in the town I love so well
There was music there in the Derry air*
like a language we all could understand
I remember the day when I made my first pay
and I played in a small pickup band
there I spent my youth and to tell you the
truth
I was sad to leave it all behind me
for I learned about life and I found me a
wife
in the town I love so well
(Lead Break)
When I returned how my eyes did burn
to see how a town could be brought to its
knees
with the armored cars and the bombed out bars
and the gas that hangs on every breeze
now the army's installed by the old gas yard
wall
and that damned barbed wire gets higher and
higher
with their tanks and guns oh my god what have
they done
in the town I love so well
Now the music's gone but they carry on
for their spirit's been bruised never broken
they will not forget for their minds are set
on tomorrow and peace once again
for what's done is done and what's won is
won
and what's lost is lost and gone forever
I can only pray for a bright and brand new
day
in the town I love so well