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tabbed by : thvdscheur

email : thvdscheur@hotmail . com

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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 the 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

in the early morning the shirt factory horn

called women from graigeen , the moor and the bog

while the men on the dole played a mother’s role

fed the children , and then walked the dogs

and when times got tough there was just about enough

but they saw it through without complaining

for deep inside was a burning pride

for the town i love so well

there was music there in the derry air

like a language that we all could understand

i remember the day that i earned my first pay

when i played in a small pick – up band

there i spent my youth , and to tell you the truth

i was sad to leave it all behind me

for i’d learned about life and i’d found me a wife

in the town i loved so well

but when i returned , how my eyes have burned

to see how a town could be brought to its knees

by the armoured cars and the bombed out bars

and the gas that hangs on to every breeze

now the army is installed by the old gas – yard wall

and the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher

with their tanks and their guns , oh my god what have they done

to the town i love so well

now the music’s gone , but they carry on

for their spirit’s been brused , but never broken

they will not forget for their hearts are all 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 brand new day

in the town i love so well