The Town I Love So Well

In my memory I will always see

The town that I have loved so well

Where our school played ball by the Gas-yard wall

And we smiled through the smell and the smog

Going home in the rain, walking fast down the dark lane

Past the prison cels and down behind the fountain

Those were happy days in so many, many ways

In the town that I love so well

In the early morn' the shirt factory horn

Called the women from Graigeen, The Moor and The Bog

While their men on the dole played a mother's fair role

Fed the children, and then they walked the dog

And when times went tough there was just about enough

And they saw it all through without complaining

For there deep inside was a burning pride

For the town that I love so well

There was music there 'round the old Derry air

't Was a language that we all could understand

I remember the day when I earned my first pay

When I played in a small pick-up band

There I spent all my youth and to tell you the truth

I was sad to leave it all behind me

There I'd learned about life there I found my sweet wife

In the town that I love so well

Now when I returned, oh how my eyes got burned

To see how a city has been brought to its knees

With their armoured cars and the bombed out bars

And the gas that hangs on to any breeze

Now the Army's 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 that I love so well

Now the music's gone, but they still carry on

For their spirit's might be bruised, never broken

They can not forget çause their hearts they are set

On tomorrow, and peace once again

For what's done that is done, and what's won it might be won

But what's lost that's lost and gone forever

I can only pray for a bright better day

For the town that I love so well