The Town I Loved So Well

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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 moore 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 dairy 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

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	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