THE TOWN I LOVED SO WELL Paddy Reilly
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In my memory, I will always see, the town that I have loved so well.
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Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall and we laughed through the smoke
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and the smell.
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Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane, past the jail and
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Those were happy days in so many many ways, in the town I loved so
well.
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In the early morning the shirt factory horn, called women from
Cleggan, the moor and the bog.
And the men on the dole, played a mothers role, fed the children and then walked the dog.
And when times got rough, there was just about enough, and they saw it through without
complaining.
For deep inside, was a burning pride for the town I loved so well.
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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 pick-upband.
There I spent my youth, and to tell you the truth, I was sad to leave it all behind me.
For Id learned about life, and I found me a wife, in the town I loved so well.
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Now the musics gone, but they carry on. Though their spirits
been bruised but never broken.
Though theyll not forget, their hearts are set, on tomorrow and peace once again.
For whats done is done, and whats won is won. And whats lost is lost and
goneforever.
I can only pray, for a bright brand new day, for the town I loved so well.