The Town I Loved So Well - Live

In my memory I will always see
 The town that I have loved so well
 Where the 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 walked the dog
 And when times got tough there was just about enough
 But they 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
 And 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 found me a wife
 In the town I loved so well
 But when I returned, how my eyes had burned
 To see how a town could be brought to it's knees
 With their armored cars and the bombed-out bars
 And the gas that hangs on to every breeze
 Now the army's installed by that old gasyard 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 spirit's 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 forever
 I can only pray for a bright brand-new day
 In the town I loved so well
 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 loved so well.