Town I Loved So Well - Various Artists (欧美群星)

In my memory I will always see

The town that I have loved so well

Where our school played ball by the gasyard 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 horn

Called women from Craigeen the Moor and the Bog

While the man on the dole played the mother's role

Fed the children and then trained 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 loved so well

There was music there in the Derry air

Like a language that

We all could understand

I remember the day

When I earned my first pay

As I played in the 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've 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 it's knees

By the armoured cars

And the bombed out bars

And the gas that hangs

On to every breeze

Now the army's installed by

That 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 loved so well

Now the music's gone but they carry on

For their spirits been bruised never broken

They will not forget but their hearts 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 for ever

I can only pray for a bright brand new day

In the town I love so well

I can only pray for a bright brand-new day

In the town I loved so well