In my memory I will always seeThe town that I have loved so wellWhere our school play ball by the gas yard wallAnd we'll laugh through the smoke and the smellGoing home in the rain, riding up the dog lanePassage A and down behind the fountainThose were happy days in so many, many waysIn the town I loved so wellIn the early morning, the shirt factory's hornCalled women from Creggan, the moor and the bookWhile the men on the dole played the mother's roleFed the children and then trained the dogAnd when times got tough, there was just about enoughBut this all is through without complainingFor deep inside was a burning prideIn the town I loved so wellThere was music there in the dairy airLike a language that we all could understandI remember the day that I earned my first paidThen I played in a small pick-up bandThere I spent my youth and to tell you the truthI was sad to leave it all behind meFor I learned about life and I found a wifeIn the town I loved so wellBut when I return, how my eyes have burnedTo see how a town could be brought to its kneesBy the armoured cars and the bummed-out barsAnd the gas that hangs on to every breezeNow the army's installed by that old gas-yard wallAnd the damn barbed wire gets higher and higherWith their tanks and their guns, oh my God, what have they doneTo the town I loved so wellNow the music's gone but they carry onFor the spirit's been bruised, never brokenThey will not forget but their hearts are sadOn tomorrow and peace once againFor what's done is done and what's won is wonAnd what's lost is lost and gone foreverI can only pray for a bright and brand-new dayIn the town I loved so well*