This was posted by an Irish site I follow as performed by another Irish singer -- a legend I guess -- but this version is so much better. It has little to do with Christmas directly, but any song about the need for reconciliation and peace is about Christmas I guess. The Town I Loved So Well (Phil Coulter) In my memories, I will always see The town that I have loved so well Where our school played ball by the old gas yard 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 women from Creggan, the moor, and the bog Whilst 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 And 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 that Derry air Like a language that we, 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 you the truth I was sad to leave it all behind me For I learned about life, and I 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 armys 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 musics gone but they still carry on For their spirits been bruised, never broken They will not forget that their hearts are set On tomorrow and peace once again For whats done is done and whats won is won And whats lost is lost and gone for ever I can only pray for a bright, brand new day In the town I love so well. youtu.be/fTuQfegR53A
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 06:34:25 +0000
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