The Town I Loved So Well
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The Town I Loved So Well
the Dubliners
In my
G
memor
D/F#
y I will
C/E
always
G
see
The
C
town that
G
I have loved so
D
well
Where our
G
school played
D/F#
ball by the
C/E
gasyard
G
wall
And we
C
laughed through the
G
smoke
D
and the
G
smell
Going
C
home in the
D
rain, running
G
up the
G/F#
dark
G/E
lane
G/D
Past the
C
jail
C/B
and
Am7
down behind the
D
fountain
Those were
G
happy
D/F#
days in so
C/E
many, many
G
ways
In the
C
town I
G
loved
D
so
G
well
In the
G
early
D/F#
morning the
C/E
shirt factory
G
horn
Called the
C
women from
G
Creggan, the Moor and the
D
Bog
While the
G
men on the
D/F#
dole played a
C/E
mothers
G
role
Fed the
C
children and
G
then
D
trained the
G
dog
And when
C
times got
D
tough there was
G
just a
G/F#
bout e
G/E
nough
G/D
But they
C
saw
C/B
it
Am7
through without com
D
plaining
For
G
deep in
D/F#
side was a
C/E
burning
G
pride
In the
C
town I
G
loved
D
so
G
well
There was
G
music
D/F#
there in the
C/E
Derry
G
air
Like a
C
language that
G
we all could under
D
stand
I re
G
member the
D/F#
day when I
C/E
earned my first
G
pay
And I
C
played in a
G
small
D
pickup
G
band
There I
C
spent my
D
youth and to
G
tell you
G/F#
the
G/E
truth
G/D
I was
C
sad
C/B
to
Am7
leave it all be
D
hind me
For I
G
learned about
D/F#
life and I'd
C/E
found a
G
wife
In the
C
town I
G
loved
D
so
G
well
But when
G
I re
D/F#
turned how my
C/E
eyes have
G
burned
To
C
see how a
G
town could be brought to its
D
knees
By the
G
armoured
D/F#
cars and the
C/E
bombed out
G
bars
And the
C
gas that hangs
G
on to
D
every
G
tree
Now the
C
army's in
D
stalled by that
G
old gas
G/F#
yard
G/E
wall
G/D
And the
C
damned
C/B
barbed
Am7
wire gets higher and
D
higher
With their
G
tanks and their
D/F#
guns, oh my
C/E
God, what have they
G
done
To the
C
town I
G
loved
D
so
G
well
Now the
G
music's
D/F#
gone but they
C/E
carry
G
on
For their
C
spirit's been
G
bruised, never
D
broken
They will
G
not for
D/F#
get but their
C/E
hearts are
G
set
On to
C
morrow and
G
peace
D
once a
G
gain
For what's
C
done is
D
done and what's
G
won
G/F#
is
G/E
won
G/D
And what's
C
lost
C/B
is
Am7
lost and gone for
D
ever
I can
G
only
D/F#
pray for a
C/E
bright, brand new
G
day
In the
C
town I
G
loved
D
so
G
well
Speed