[00:01.00]The Town I Loved So Well
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[00:16.65]In my memory I will always see
[00:23.50]The town that I have loved so well
[00:31.15]Where our school played ball by the gasyard wall
[00:38.65]And we laughed through the smoke and the smell
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[00:44.75]Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane
[00:51.76]Past the jail and down behind the fountain
[00:59.43]Those were happy days in so many, many ways
[01:06.47]In the town I loved so well
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[01:13.73]There was music there in the Derry air
[01:22.26]Like a language that we all could under stand
[01:28.85]I remember the day when I earned my first pay
[01:36.17]And I played in a small pickup band
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[01:44.54]There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth
[01:51.43]I was sad to leave it all behind me
[01:58.61]For I learned about life and I'd found a wife
[02:05.81]In the town I loved so well
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[02:12.91]But when I returned how my eyes have burned
[02:19.97]To see how a town could be brought to its knees
[02:26.05]By the armoured cars and the bombed out bars
[02:33.73]And the gas that hangs on to every tree
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[02:41.98]Now the army's in stalled by that old gasyard wall
[02:48.83]And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher
[02:56.77]With their tanks and their guns, oh my God, what have they done
[03:03.02]To the town I loved so well
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[03:12.70]Now the music's gone but they carry on
[03:21.24]For their spirit's been bruised, never broken
[03:31.12]They will not for get but their hearts are set
[03:39.11]On to morrow and peace once again
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[03:48.35]For what's done is done and what's won is won
[03:54.97]And what's lost is lost and gone forever
[04:03.65]I can only pray for a bright, brand new day
[04:11.06]In the town I loved so well
[04:20.31]In the town I loved so well
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