The Town I Loved So Well-The Celtic Tenors

[00:01.00]The Town I Loved So Well [00:05.00] [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 [00:44.00] [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 [01:13.00] [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 [01:43.00] [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 [02:11.00] [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 [02:40.72] [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 [03:11.00] [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 [03:46.04] [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 [04:25.73]