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 In my memory I will always see

 The town that I have loved so well

 Where our school played ball by the gasyard wall

 And we 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 morning the shirt factory horn

 Called the women from Creggan, the Moor and the Bog

 While the men on the dole played a mothers role

 Fed the children and then trained the dog

 And when times got tough there was just about enough

 But they saw it through without complaining

 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 we all could understand

 I remember the day when I earned my first pay

 And 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 learned about life and I'd found a wife

 In the town I loved so well

 But when I returned how my eyes have 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 tree

 Now the army's installed by that old gasyard wall

 And the damned 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 their spirit's been bruised, never broken

 They will not forget but their hearts are set

 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, brand new day

 In the town I loved so well