The Town I Loved So Well Tab uke di Traditional Irish

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In my memory I will always see
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The town that I have loved so well
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Where our school played ball by the gasyard wall
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And we laughed through the smoke and the smell
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Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane
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Past the jail and down behind the fountain
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Those were happy days in so many many ways
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In the town I loved so well
 

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In the early morning the shirt factory horn
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Called women from Creggan, the Moor and the Bog
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While the men on the dole played a mother's role
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Fed the children and then trained the dog
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And when times got tough, there was just about enough
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But they saw it through without complaining
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For deep inside was a burning pride
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In the town I loved so well
 

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There was music there in the Derry air
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Like a language that we all could understand
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I remember the day when I earned my first pay
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as I played in a small pickup band
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There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth
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I was sad to leave it all behind me
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For I'd learned about life and I'd found a wife
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In the town I loved so well
 

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But when I returned, oh my eyes, how they had burned
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To see how a town could be brought to it's knees
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By the armoured cars and the bombed out bars
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And the gas that hangs on to every breeze
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Now the army's installed by that old gasyard wall
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And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher
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With their tanks and guns, oh my God, what have they done
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To the town I loved so well



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Now the music's gone but they carry on
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For their spirit's been bruised, never broken
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Oh, they'll not forget but their hearts are set
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On tomorrow and peace once again
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For what's done is done and what's won is won
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And what's lost is lost and gone forever
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I can only pray for a bright brand new day
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In the town I loved so well