The Town I Loved so Well (Live)

(For why, because I had a fairly mild success with it)
(No, no, no, you're jumping to gun now, ha ha ha ha)
(And ah, as far as I'm concerned, I learned it from the man that)

(Immortalized the song, I'm, I'm the one to judge, make sense it now)
(But tonight, we are going to air to all the ball a small bit)
(And a different direction, Phil called the song, The Town I Loved So Well)
(Has been sung all over the world by Luke Kelly and err)

(He is the man that immortalized the song)
(The one that's not with us, my father)
(But tonight err singing up with heaven, with the great old bash)
(Up here, old, old friends, the Dubliners, Jimmy Can himself)

(All with love to hear, running, singing Phil Coltres, all there band so well)
(Thank you brothers)

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 have loved so well

In the early morning the shirt factory horn
Called the women from Craigeen the moor and the bug
While the man on the dole played the mother's role
Fed the children and then trained the dog

And when times got rough there was just about enough
But we saw it through without complaining
For deep inside was a burning pride
And the town I loved so well

There was music there in the deary air
Like a language that we could all understand
I remember the day when I earned my first pay
When I played in the 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'd learned about life and I've 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 breeze

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 I carry on
By their spirit's been bruised, never broken
They will not forget for their hearts are set
On tomorrow and peace once again

Well 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