TOWN I LOVED SO WELL

In my memory I will always see

The town that I have loved so well

Where our school played ball by the gasyard well

And we laughed through the smoke and smell.

Going home in the rain running up a dark lane

Pest the jail and down beside the fountain

Those were happy days in so many many ways

In the town I loved so well.

In the early morn the shirt factory horn

Called the women from Creggan, the Moor and the Bog

While the men on the dole played a mothering role

Fed the children and then waled the dog

And when times got rough there was just about enough

But we saw it through without complaining

For deep inside was a burning pride

In the town I loved so well.

There was music there in the Derry air

Like a language that we could all understand

I remember the day when I earned my first pay

When I played in a small guitar band

There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth

I was sad to leave it all behind me

There I learned about life and I found me a wife

In the town I loved so well:

But when I returned oh my eyes how they burned

To see how a town could be brought to it's knees

By the armoured cars and the bombed out bars

And the gas that hangs on to everything

Now the army's installed by the gasyard wall

And their barbed wire gets higher and higher

With their tanks and their guns

Oh my God, what have they done

To the town I loved so well.

Though the music has gone and though we must carry on

Our spirit's been bruised but never broken

We must never forget that our hearts are still set

On tomorrow and peace once again

Now 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

For the town I Ioved so well.