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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