In my memory I will always see,
The town that I loved so well
Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall
And we laughed through the smoke and smell
Going home in the rain
Running up the park lane
Past the jail and down behind The Fountain .
Those were happy days in so many ways
In the town I loved so well

In the early morning the shirt factory horn
Called women from Creggan, The Moor and The Bog,
While the men on the dole played a mothers role,
Fed the children and then walked 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
For 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 that I earned my first pay
When I played in a small pick up band.
There I spent my youth and to tell the truth
I was sad to leave it all behind me,
For I'd learned about life and I'd found a wife
In the town I loved so well.

But when I've 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 gas yard 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 spirits 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 lost is lost and gone forever.
I can only pray for a bright grand new day
In the town I love so well.