the town i loved so well chords by
Paddy Reilly

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Key: Ab major•

Intro 1

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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 schools played ball by

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The gas yard wall and

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we laughed through the

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Smoke and the smell going

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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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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

Verse 2

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In the early morning the shirt-

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factory horn

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Called women from Craigeen

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The Moor and the Bog

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While the men on the dole

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Played the mother's role

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Fed the children and then

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watched the dogs

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And when times got rough there

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Was just about enough

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But they saw it through

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without complaining

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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 in the Derry air

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Like a language that we

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could all understand

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I remember the day that I

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earned my first pay

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When I played in the small pick- up band

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There I spent my youth and

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To tell you the truth

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I was sad to leave it all behind me

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For I'd learned 'bout life and

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I've found a wife

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In the town I loved so well

Verse 3

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But when I returned,

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how my eyes have burned

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To see how a town could

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Be brought to it's knees

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By the armoured cars and

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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 by

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That old gasyard 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

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What have they done

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To the town I loved so well

Verse 4

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Now the music's gone but I still carry on

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For their spirit's been bruised

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Never broken they will not forget for

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Their hearts are aset

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On tomorrow and peace once again

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For what's done is done and

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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 bright brand new day

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In the town I

loved so well

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