The Town I Loved So Well chords by Bridie Gallagher
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Verse 1
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In my memory
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I will always see
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The town that I have loved so well
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Where our school played ball
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by the gas -smothered wall
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And we laughed through the
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smoke and the smell
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Going home in the rain,
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running up the dark lane
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Past the quay and on
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behind the fountain
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Those were happy days in so many,
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many ways
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In the town I loved so well
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In the early morning,
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the chute factory horn
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Called the women from Creggan,
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the moor and the bog.
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While the men on the dole
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lay the mother's role,
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Fed the children and then
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trained the doves.
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And when times got tough,
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there was just about enough
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But they saw me through
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without complaining
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For deep inside was a burning pride
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In the time I loved so well
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There was music there in the derriere
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Like a language that we
all could understand
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I remember the day that
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I earned my first pay
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When I played with a small pick -up band
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There I spent my youth and to tell the truth
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I was sad to leave it all behind me
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For I learned about life and became a wife
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In the town I loved so well
But when I returned,
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how my eyes have burned
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To see how a town
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could be brought to its knees,
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by the armored cars
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and the bombed -out bars,
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and the gas that hangs
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on to every breeze.
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Now the army's installed
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by the old gas yard wall
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And the damned barbed wire
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gets higher and higher
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With their tanks and their guns,
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oh my God, what have they done
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To the town I loved so well
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Now the music's gone,
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but they still carry on
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For their spirit's been bruised,
never broken
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They will not forget,
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for their hearts are set
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For tomorrow and peace once again
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For what's done is done,
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and what's won is won,
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and what's lost is lost
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and gone forever.
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I can only pray for a
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brand bright new day
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In the town I loved so well.
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The Town I Loved So Well
Bridie Gallagher
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