(Phil Coulter)

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 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 that I loved so well

There was music there in the Dery air
Like a language that we all could understand
I remenber the day that I earned my first pay
When I played in a 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 about life and I found a wife
In the town that I loved so well

But when I've returned how my eyes have burned
Just 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 that old gas yard wall
And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher
With their tanks and their guns
Oh my god what have they done
To the town that I loved so well

Now the music is gone but they carry on
For their spirit has been bruised, never broken
They will not forget, but their hearts are set
On tomorrow and peace once again
But 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 that I loved so well

I can only pray for a bright, brand new day
In the town that I loved so well

C. & P. Mews Music (PRS)

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