The Town I Loved So Well Lyrics - The Dubliners Essential Collection - Dubliners

In my memory I will always see 

the town that I have loved so well 

where our school played ball by the gasyard 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 Craigeen the Moor and the Bog 

while the man on the dole played the mother`s role 

fed the children and then trained the dogs. 

And when times got tough there was just about enough 

but they saw it through without complaining 

for deep inside was a burning pride 

for the town I loved so well. 

There was music there in the Derry air 

like a language that we all could understand 

I remember the day when I earned my first pay 

as I played in the small pick-up band. 

There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth 

I was sad to leave it all behind me 

for I`d learned `bout life and I`ve found me a wife 

in the town I loved so well. 

But when I returned how my eyes have burned 

to see how a town could be brought ti its knees 

by the armored cars and the bombed-out bars 

and the gas that hangs on to every breeze. 

Now the army`s installed by that old gasyard wall 

and the damned barbwire gets high and higher 

with their tanks and their guns, oh my god what have they done 

to the town I loved so well.