[ti:The Town I Loved so Well]
[ar:Hugo Duncan]
[al:Most Requested Songs]
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[00:00.00]The Town I Loved so Well - Hugo Duncan
[00:08.66]In my memory I will always see
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[00:17.38]The town that I have loved so well
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[00:25.64]Where our school played ball
[00:29.56]By the gas yard wall
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[00:33.94]And they laughed through the smoke and the smell
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[00:42.37]Going home in the rain running up the dark lane
[00:50.73]Past the jail and down behind the fountain
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[00:58.61]Those were happy days in so many many ways
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[01:07.60]In the town I loved so well
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[01:15.94]In the early morning the shirt factory horn
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[01:24.57]Called women from Creggan
[01:28.85]The moor and the bog
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[01:32.88]While the men on the dole played a mother's role
[01:41.11]Fed the children and then walked the dog
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[01:49.34]And when times got tough
[01:53.24]There was just about enough
[01:57.35]But they saw it through without complaining
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[02:06.24]For deep inside was a burning pride
[02:14.72]In the town I loved so well
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[02:23.17]There was music there in the Derry air
[02:31.49]Like a language that we could all understand
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[02:40.16]I remember the day when I earned my first pay
[02:48.29]As I played in a small pick-up band
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[02:56.70]There I spent my youth
[03:00.73]And to tell you the truth
[03:04.87]I was sad to leave it all behind me
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[03:13.48]For I learned about life and I found a wife
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[03:21.87]In the town I loved so well
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[03:30.36]But when I returned how my eyes they burned
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[03:38.71]To see how a town could be brought to it's knees
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[03:46.99]By the armoured cars and the bombed-out bars
[03:55.48]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze
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[04:04.01]Now the army's installed by the old gas yard wall
[04:12.15]And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher
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[04:20.57]With their tanks and their guns
[04:24.65]Oh my god what have they done
[04:29.05]To the town I loved so well
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[04:37.48]Now the music's gone go still carry on
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[04:45.88]For their spirit's been bruised never broken
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[04:54.32]They will not forget
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[04:58.33]Still their hearts are set
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[05:02.44]On tomorrow and peace once again
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[05:10.88]For what's done is done
[05:15.13]And what's won is won
[05:19.29]But what's lost is lost and gone for ever
[05:27.89]I can only pray for a bright brand new day
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[05:36.33]In the town I love so well