The Town I Loved So Well
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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 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 Creggan, the Moor and the Bog
While the men on the dole played a mother's role fed the children, and then walked the dog
And when times got rough there was just about enough but they saw it through without complaining
For deep inside was a burning pride in the town I love 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 as I played in the small pickup 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'd found me a wife in the town I loved so well 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
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But when I returned, how my eyes were burned to see how a town could be brought to its
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 guns, oh my God what have they done to the town I love so well

Now the music's gone, but they still carry on though their spirit's been bruised never broken
And they can't forget for 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 love so well
I can only pray for a bright brand new day in the town I(slow) love so well 2 3 4 A

The Town I Love So Well
Bass
Piano
Guitar
Strings
Melody
Strings Harmony
Pan Flute
Strings chords
Mandolin
Choir Left
Choir Right
Drums
click
Electric toms
The Town I Loved So Well
Arranged by Frank Lennon
flennon@indigo.ie
www.socc.ie/~irishmidifiles
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