The Town I'd Loved so Well letra

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 have loves so well.

In the early morning the shirt-factory horn
called women from Creggan, 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 rough 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 could all 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 armered cars and the bombed-out bars
and the gas that hangs on to every breathe.
Now the army`s installed by that old gasyard wall
and the damned barbwire gets high and higher
with their tanks and their bombs, oh my god what have they done
to the town I loved so well.

Now the music`s gone but I still carry on
for their spirit`s been 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
to the town I lived so well.

The Dubliners - Letras

• A Pub With No Beer
• A Song For Ireland
• All For Me Grog
• Anna Liffey
• Avondale
• Banks Of The Roses
• Black Velvet Band
• Bugger Off!
• Carrickfergus
• Come And Join The British Army
• Danny Boy
• Dicey Reilly
• Dirty Old Town
• Don't Get Married
• Dont Give Up 'till It's Over
• Down By The Glenside
• Drink It Up Men
• Easy And Slow
• Farewell to Carlingford
• Finnegan's Wake
• Foggy Dew
• For What Died the Sons of Róisín
• Four Green Fields
• Gentleman Soldier
• Hand Me Down Me Petticoat
• Hand Me Down My Bible
• Home Boys Home
• Hot Asphalt
• I Wish I Was Back In Liverpool
• I'll Tell Me Ma
• I'm a Rover
• In The Rare Old Times
• Jar of Porter
• Johnson`s Motorcar
• Kelly The Boy From Killane
• Kilkelly
• Limerick Rake
• Lord of the Dance
• Love Is Pleasing
• Maloney Wants a Drink
• Many Young Man Of Twenty
• McAlpines Fusiliers
• McCafferty
• Molly Malone
• Mrs. McGrath
• Nelson Farewell
• Never Wed an Old Man
• Only Our Rivers Run Free
• Peggy Lettermore
• Poor Paddy On The Railway
• Preab San Ól
• Rare Old Mountain Dew
• Scorn not His Simplicity
• Seven Drunken Nights
• Song For Ireland
• Spanish Lady
• The Auld Triangle
• The Ballad Of St. Anne's Reel
• The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
• The Bonny Boy
• The Captains And The Kings
• The Dundee Weaver
• The Fields of Athenry
• The Galway Races
• The Holy Ground
• The Irish Rover
• The Lifeboat Mona
• The Mero
• The Monto
• The Night Visiting Song
• The Nightingale
• The Old Alarm Clock
• The Orange And The Green
• The Pub With No Beer
• The Ragman's Ball
• The Rising Of The Moon
• The Rocky Road To Dublin
• The Sick Note
• The Town I'd Loved so Well
• The Travelling People
• Tibby Dunbar
• Tramps and Hawkers
• Viva la Quinta Brigada
• Weila Weila
• Whiskey In The Jar
• Wild Rover
• Woman From Wexford
• Zoological Gardens