The Town I Loved So Well-Phil Coulter

[00:00.000] 作词 : Phil Coulter [00:19.795]In my memory, I will always see [00:29.629]The town that I have loved so well [00:37.321]Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall [00:46.119]And they laughed through the smoke and the smell [00:56.174]Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane [01:03.080]Past the jail, and down behind the fountain [01:12.337]Those were happy days in so many, many ways [01:21.094]In the town I loved so well [01:29.857]In the early morning the shirt factory horn [01:38.090]Called women from Kragan, the moor, and the bog [01:46.587]While the men on the dole played a mother's role [01:55.664]Fed the children and then walked the dog [02:05.214]And when times got tough there was just about enough [02:12.416]And they saw it through without complaining [02:20.924]For deep inside was a burning pride [02:29.705]In the town I loved so well [02:38.191]There was music there in the derriere [02:47.239]Like a language that we all could understand [02:55.469]I remember the day that I earned my first pay [03:04.255]When I played in a small pick-up band [03:12.240]There I spent my youth, and to tell you the truth [03:20.768]I was sad to leave it all behind me [03:29.811]For I learned about life, and I found a wife [03:38.251]In the town I loved so well [03:55.525]But when I returned, how my eyes have burned [04:04.053]To see how a town could be brought to its knees [04:12.552]By the armored cars and the bombed-out bars [04:21.322]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze [04:29.297]Now the army's installed by that old gas yard wall [04:39.097]And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher [04:45.768]With their tanks and their guns, oh my god, what have they done [04:54.819]To the town I loved so well [05:03.824]Now the music's gone but they carry on [05:12.043]For their spirits been bruised, never broken [05:21.090]They will not forget but their hearts are set [05:30.144]On tomorrow and peace once again [05:38.374]For what's done is done and what's won is won [05:46.872]And what's lost is lost and gone for ever [05:55.384]I can only pray for a bright, brand-new day [06:04.961]In the town I love so well