The Town I Loved So Well

[Verse 1] In my memory I will always see The town that I have loved so well Where the kids played ball by the old gasyard wall And we laughed through the smoke and the smell Going home in the rain, running down the dark lane Past the jail and down behind the fountain Those were happy days in so many ways In the town I loved so well [Verse 2] There was music there in the Derry air Like a language we could all understand I was proud on the day when I earned my first pay When 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 learned about life and I'd found me a wife In the town I loved so well [Verse 3] But when I returned how my eyes have 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 tree 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 God, what have they done To the town I loved so well [Verse 4] 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 I can only pray for a bright, brand new day In the town I loved so well