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Luke KellyThe Town I Loved So WellLiveLyrics
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Luke Kelly-The Town I Loved So Well-Live-Lyrics • The Performer • The Late Great Luke Kelly. • More Music and Video At: • http://www.myscotland.co • http://www.ianwrussell.com • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Lyrics: • In my memory I will always see • The town that I have loved so well • Where our school played ball by the Gas-yard wall • And we laughed through the smoke and the smell • Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane • Past the jail and down behind 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 women from Graigeen, The Moor and The Bog • While the men on the dole played a mother's role • Fed the children, and then walked the roads • And when times got rough there was just about enough • But they saw it through without complaining • For deep inside was a burning pride • For the town I love so well • There was music there in the Derry air • Like a language that we could all understand • I remember the day, when I earned my first pay • As I played in the small pick-up band • Then I spent my youth, and to tell you the truth • I was sad to leave it all behind me • For I'd learned about life and I'd found me a wife • In the town I loved so well • But when I returned, how my eyes were burned • 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 every breeze • Now the Army's installed by the old Gas-yard wall • And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher • With their tanks and guns, oh my God what have they done • To the town I love so well • Now the music's gone, but they still carry-on • Though their spirit's gone, but never broken • They will not forget for their hearts are all set • On tomorrow, and peace once again • For what's done is done, and what's won is won • And what's lost is lost and gone forever • I can only pray for a bright brand new day • In the town I love so well
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