The town I loved so well   (midi)
 
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1. 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 by the gasyard wall,
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 and we laughed through the smoke and the smell.
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 Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane,
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 past the jail and down behind the fountain.
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 Those were happy days, in so many, many ways,
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 in the town I loved so well.
 
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2. In the early morning the shirt factory horn,
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 called women from Creggan, the Moor and the Bog.
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 While the men on the dole played a mother's role,
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 fed the children and then walked the dogs.
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 And though times were tough, there was just about enough
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 and they saw it 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.
 
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3. There was music there in the Derry air,
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 like a language that we could all understand.
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 I remember the day 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 and to tell you 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 I'd found a wife,
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 in the town I loved so well.
 
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4. But when I returned how my eyes were burned,
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 to see how a town could be brought to its knees.
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 By the armoured cars 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 by that old gasyard wall,
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 and that damned barbed wire gets higher and higher.
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 With their tanks and guns oh my God what have they done,
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 to the town I loved so well.
 
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5. Now the music's gone 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, 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 and what's won is won,
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 and what's lost is lost 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.
 

(orig. = capo 3rd) (P. Coulter / Noel McLoughlin)