The Town I Loved So Well

Accordi The Town I Loved So Well

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In my memory I will always  see
    
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The town that I have loved so well
          
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Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall
       
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And we laughed through the smoke  and the smell
      
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Going home in the rain, running up the dark   lane,
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 Past ther gaol (jail) and down behind the fountain,

           
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Those were happy days in so many, many ways
       
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In the town I loved   so well
             
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In the early morning, the shirt factory horn
       
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Callde women from Creggan, the moor and the bog
            
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While their men on the dole played a mother's role
        
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Fed the children and then   trained the dogs
         
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And when times got tough, there was just about enough
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 But they saw  it    through without complaining
    
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For deep inside was a burning pride
       
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In the town I loved   so well

          
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There was music there in the Derry   air
       
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Like a language that we all could understand
    
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I remember the day when I earned my first pay
       
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When I played in a small  pick-up band
        
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There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth
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  I was sad  to    leave it all behind me
      
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For I learned about life and I found a wife
       
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In the town I loved   so well

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But when I returned how my eyes have burned
   
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To see how a town could be brought to its knees
       
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By the armoured cars and the bombed out bars
        
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And the gas that hangs on to  every breeze
        
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Now the army's installed by the old gas yard wall
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 And the damded barbed wire gets higher and higher
           
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With their tanks and their guns 
      
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oh my God what have they done
       
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To the town I loved  so well

        
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Now the music's gone but they carry   on
          
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For their spirit's been bruised, never broken
          
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They will not forget but their hearts are set
     
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On tomorrow and peace  once again
           
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For what's done is done and what's won is     won
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 And what's lost  is   lost and gone forever
      
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I can only pray for a bright, brand new day
       
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In the town I loved  so well