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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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In My memory I will always see
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The town that I have loved so well
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Where our school's played ball
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by the gas yard wall
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And we laughed through the smoke
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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 jail and down
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Those were happy days,
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in so many, many ways,
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In the town I loved
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so well.
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In the early morning the
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shirt factory horn
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Pulled women from Cregan
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to the moor and the bog
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While the man on the dole
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played a mother's role,
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Fed the children and then
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walked the dogs.
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And when
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times got tough,
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But we saw it through
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For deep inside was a burning pride
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For the town I loved so well
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There was music there
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in the dairy air
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all could understand
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I remember the day when
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I earned my first pay
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As I played in that small pick -up van
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There I spent my youth,
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and to tell you the truth,
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I was said to leave it all behind me.
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For I'd learned about life,
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In the town I loved so well
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But when I returned,
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how my eyes were burned
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To see how a town
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By the armoured cars
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and the bombed -out bars
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And the gas that hangs on
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to every breeze
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Now the army's in stalled
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by that old gas -yard ball
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An d that damned barbed wire
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With their tanks and their guns
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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 carry on
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Though their spirit's been bruised
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But never broken
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Though we're not free yet,
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still our hearts are set
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On to power and peace once again
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For what's done, it's done,
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and what's won, it's won
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An d what's lost,
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it's lost and gone forever
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I can only pray for a bright
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In the town I loved so well
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In the town I loved so well
Outro 1
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