[ti:The Town I Loved So Well]
[ar:Phil Coulter]
[al:Words and Music]
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[00:00.00]The Town I Loved So Well (我曾深爱的小镇) - Phil Coulter (菲尔·柯尔特)
[00:20.17]In my memories
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[00:25.68]I will always see
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[00:30.08]The town that I have loved so well
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[00:37.42]Where our school played ball
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[00:42.99]By the old gas yard wall
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[00:46.39]And we laughed through the smoke and the smell
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[00:56.19]Going home in the rain  running up the dark lane
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[01:03.37]Past the jail  and down behind the Fountain
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[01:12.07]Those were happy days in so many  many ways
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[01:20.87]In the town I loved so well
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[01:29.39]In the early morning
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[01:35.17]The shirt factory horn
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[01:38.12]Called women from Creggan
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[01:42.80]The moor  and the bog
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[01:46.85]Whilst the men on the dole
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[01:52.41]Played a mother's role
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[01:55.58]Fed the children and then walked the dog
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[02:05.30]And when times got tough  there was just about enough
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[02:12.46]And they saw it through without complaining
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[02:21.20]For deep inside was a burning pride
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[02:29.75]In the town I loved so well
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[02:38.34]There was music there in that Derry air
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[02:46.96]Like a language that we all could understand
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[02:55.71]I remember the day that I earned my first pay
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[03:03.84]When I played in a small pick-up band
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[03:12.64]There I spent my youth  and to tell you the truth
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[03:20.94]I was sad to leave it all behind me
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[03:29.79]For I learned about life
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[03:35.19]And I found a wife
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[03:38.50]In the town I loved so well
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[03:55.49]But when I returned  how my eyes have burned
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[04:04.02]To see how a town could be brought to it's knees
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[04:12.43]By the armoured cars and the bombed-out bars
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[04:21.26]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze
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[04:29.36]Now the army's installed by that old gas yard wall
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[04:37.82]And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher
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[04:45.97]With their tanks and their guns
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[04:50.77]Oh my god  what have they done
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[04:55.09]To the town I loved so well
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[05:03.63]Now the music's gone
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[05:09.11]But they still carry on
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[05:12.64]For their spirits been bruised  never broken
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[05:21.12]They will not forget
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[05:26.69]That their hearts are set
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[05:30.17]On tomorrow and peace once again
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[05:38.77]For what's done is done and what's won is won
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[05:46.94]And what's lost is lost and gone forever
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[05:55.39]I can only pray for a bright  brand new day
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[06:04.72]In the town I loved so well