In My memory I will always see
The town that I have loved so well
Where our school's 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
Pulled women from Cregan
to the moor and the bog
While the man on the dole
played a mother's role,
Fed the children and then
walked the dogs.
And when
times got tough,
there was just about enough,
But we 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 dairy air
Like a language that we
all could understand
I remember the day when
I earned my first pay
As I played in that small pick -up van
There I spent my youth,
and to tell you the truth,
I was said to leave it all behind me.
For I'd learned about life,
and I 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
By the armoured cars
and the bombed -out bars
And the gas that hangs on
to every breeze
Now the army's in stalled
by that old gas -yard ball
An d that damned barbed wire
gets higher and higher
With their tanks and their guns
Oh my God, what have they done
To the town I loved so well
Now the music's gone
But they carry on
Though their spirit's been bruised
But never broken
Though we're not free yet,
still our hearts are set
On to power and peace once again
For what's done, it's done,
and what's won, it's won
An d what's lost,
it's lost and gone forever
I can only pray for a bright
brand new day
In the town I loved so well
In the town I loved so well