The Town I Loved So Well chords by
The Dubliners
Luke Kelly 
Key: Bb major
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 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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and down behind the fountain
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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 so well
Verse 2
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In the early morning, the shirt factory horn
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Called women from Creggan,
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While their men on the dole played
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a mother's role
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Fed the children and then trained the dogs
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And when times got tough,
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there was just about enough
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through without complaining
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For deep inside was a burning pride
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In the town I loved so well
Verse 3
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There was music there in the Derry air
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Like a language that we all could understand
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I remember the day
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that I earned my first pay
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When I played in a small pick-up band
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There I spent my youth
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and to tell you the truth
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to leave it all behind me
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For I learned about life and I found a wife
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In the town I loved so well
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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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 be
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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 to every breeze
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Now the army's installed
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by that old gasyard wall
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And the damded barbed wire
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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
Verse 5
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Now the music's gone
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but they carry on
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For their spirit's been bruised, never broken
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They will not forget but their hearts are set
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On 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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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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