Ronan Keating - The Town I Loved So Well lyrics

In my memory, I will always see

The town that I have loved so well

Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall

And they laughed through the smoke and the smell

Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane

Past the jail, and down behind the fountain

Those were happy days in so many, many ways

In the town I loved so well

In the early mornin' the shirt factory horn

Called women from Creegan', the Moor and the Bog

While the men on the dole played a mother's role

Fed the children and then walked the dog

And when times got rough there was just about enough

And they saw it through without complainin'

For deep inside was a burning pride

In the town I loved so well

There was music there in the Derry air

Like a language that people could well understand

I remember the day when I earned my first pay

as I played in a small pickup band

There I spent my youth, and to tell you the truth

I was sad to leave it all behind me

For I'd learned about life, and I found me a wife

In the town I loved so well

But when I returned, how my eyes were burned

To see how a town could be brought to its knees

By the armoured cars and the bombed out bars

And the gas that hangs on to every breeze

Now the army's installed by that old gas yard wall

And the damn barbed wire gets higher and higher

With their tanks and guns, oh my god, what have they done

To the town I loved so well

Now the music's gone but they carry on

For their spirits been bruised, never broken

Oh, They'll not forget but their hearts are set

On tomorrow and peace once again

Now what's done is done and what's won is won

And what's lost is lost and gone for ever

I can only pray for a bright, brand new day

In the town I loved so well

Thanks to jean-loup potel , Normandy for these lyrics