The Town I Loved So Well chords by The High Kings

Capo 2

 G  D     C   G
In my memory I will always see
  C     G        D
the town that I have loved so well
     G       D      C    G
Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall
    C          G   D    G
and we laughed through the smoke and the smell
   Em     D       G   Em  C
Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane
         G   C    D
past the jail and down behind the fountain
      G   D     C     G
Those were happy days in so many, many ways
    C   G   D G
in the town I loved so well

    G   D      C       G
In the early morning the shirt factory horn
 C     G             D
called women from Creggan, the Moor and the Bog
     G     D       C    G
While the men on the dole played a mother's role,
    C      G  D     G
fed the children and then walked the dogs
     Em    D        G   Em  C
And when times got rough there was just about enough
        G      C   D
But they saw it through without complaining
  G   D     C    G
For deep inside was a burning pride
    C   G   D G
in the town I loved so well

     G   D      C   G
There was music there in the Derry air
    C       G            D
like a language that we could all could understand
  G     D     C        G
I remember the day when I earned my first pay
   C      G   D    G
As I played in a small pick-up band
    Em    D      G  Em   C
There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth
    C    G        D
I was sad to leave it all behind me
   G       D      C    G
For I learned about life and I'd found a wife
    C   G   D G
in the town I loved so well

     G  D       C     G
But when I returned how my eyes have burned
  C     G              D
to see how a town could be brought to its knees
    G    D      C     G
By the armored cars and the bombed out bars
    C       G    D  G
and the gas that hangs on to every tree
    Em    D        G  Em    C
Now the army's installed by that old gas yard wall
         C     G       D
and the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher
      G        D      C          G
With their tanks and their guns, oh my God, what have they done?
    C   G   D G
to the town I loved so well

    G    D       C   G
Now the music's gone but they carry on
     C       G         D
For their spirit's been bruised, never broken
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They will not forget but their hearts are set
   C     G   D   G
on tomorrow and peace once again
      Em   D        G  Em C
For what's done is done and what's won is won
          C    G    D
and what's lost is lost and gone forever
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I can only pray for a bright, brand new day
    C   G   D G
in the town I loved so well