The Town I Loved So Well-The High Kings

[00:04.00] [00:06.90]In my memory I will always see [00:14.80]The town that I have loved so well [00:22.00]Where the school played ball by the gasyard wall [00:29.70]And we laughed through the smoke and the smell [00:36.00] [00:37.00]Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane [00:44.80]Past the jail and down behind the fountain [00:51.90]Those were happy days in so many, many ways [01:00.00]In the town I loved so well [01:06.30] [01:07.30]In the early morning the shirt factory horn [01:15.70]Called the women from Creggan, the Moor and the Bog [01:23.70]While the men on the dole played the mother's role [01:31.40]Fed the children and then walked the dog [01:37.90] [01:38.90]And when times got tough there was just about enough [01:46.70]But they saw it through without complaining [01:55.00]For deep inside was a burning pride [02:02.50]In the town I loved so well [02:13.00] [02:14.00]There was music there in the Derry air [02:22.40]Like a language that we could all understand [02:30.50]I remember the day when I earned my first pay [02:38.10]And I played in a small pickup band [02:45.00] [02:46.00]There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth [02:54.20]I was sad to leave it all behind me [03:02.00]For I learned about life and I found me a wife [03:10.50]In the town I loved so well [03:21.00] [03:22.00]But when I returned how my eyes have burned [03:30.20]To see how a town could be brought to its knees [03:38.00]Where the armoured cars and the bombed out bars [03:46.60]And the gas that hangs on to every breath [03:53.30] [03:54.30]Now the army's in stalled by that old gasyard wall [04:02.00]And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher [04:09.90]With their tanks and their guns, oh my God, what have they done [04:17.90]To the town I loved so well [04:25.00] [04:26.00]Now the music's gone but they carry on [04:33.90]For their spirit's been bruised, never broken [04:41.90]They will not forget but their hearts are set [04:49.80]On tomorrow and peace once again [04:56.00] [04:57.00]For what's done is done and what's won is won [05:06.50]And what's lost is lost and gone forever [05:14.80]I can only pray for a bright, brand new day [05:22.90]In the town I loved so well [05:29.00] [05:30.00]For what's done is done and what's won is won [05:38.20]And what's lost is lost and gone forever [05:46.60]I can only pray for a bright, brand new day [05:54.80]In the town I loved so well