In my memory I will always see
The town that I have loved so well
Where our school play ball by the gas yard wall
And we'll laugh through the smoke and the smell
Going home in the rain, riding up the dog lane
Passage A and down behind the fountain
Those were happy days in so many, many ways
In the town I loved so well
In the early morning, the shirt factory's horn
Called women from Creggan, the moor and the book
While the men on the dole played the mother's role
Fed the children and then trained the dog
And when times got tough, there was just about enough
But this all is through without complaining
For deep inside was a burning pride
In the town I loved so well
There was music there in the dairy air
Like a language that we all could understand
I remember the day that I earned my first paid
Then I played in a small pick-up band
There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth
I was sad to leave it all behind me
For I learned about life and I found a wife
In the town I loved so well
But when I return, how my eyes have burned
To see how a town could be brought to its knees
By the armoured cars and the bummed-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 their 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 the spirit's been bruised, never broken
They will not forget but their hearts are sad
On tomorrow and peace once again
For what's done is done and what's won is won
And what's lost is lost and gone forever
I can only pray for a bright and brand-new day
In the town I loved so well
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