In my memory,
I will always see
The town that I have loved so well
Where our school played ball
By the gas yarn wall
And we laughed through the smoke
and the smell
Goin' home in the rain,
runnin' down a dark lane
Past the jail and down be
hind 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 the women from Reagan,
the moor and
While the man on the dole
Played a mother's role
Fed the children
And then walked the dog
An d when times got rough,
there was just about enough
But we saw it through
without complaining
For me, inside, was a burning pride
In the town I loved so well
There was music there,
in the derriere
Like a language that we
could all understand
I remember the day 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.
When I learned about life,
when I found me a wife
In the town I loved so well
But when I return,
how my eyes they burn
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 a breeze.
Now the army's installed
by the old gas yard wall
And the damp barbed wire
gets higher and higher
With their tanks and their guns,
my God, what have they done
To the town I love so well?
Now the music's gone,
but they carry on
For their spirits been bruised, never broken
But they can't forget,
for their hearts are set
On tomorrow and peace
once again
But what's done, it's done,
and what's won, it's won, and what's lost,
it's past and gone forever.
I can only pray for a bright brand new day,
for the town I love so well.
Thank for