The Town I Loved So Well-Phil Coulter

[ti:The Town I Loved So Well] [ar:Phil Coulter] [al:Coulter Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Town I Loved So Well (我曾深爱的小镇) - Phil Coulter (菲尔·柯尔特) [00:16.57]In my memory I will always see [00:22.74] [00:25.05]The town that I have loved so well [00:31.00] [00:32.85]Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall [00:38.68] [00:40.76]And they laughed through the smoke and the smell [00:44.81] [00:48.73]Going home in the rain running up the dark lane [00:54.68] [00:56.44]Past the jail and down behind the fountain [01:01.35] [01:04.20]Those were happy days in so many many ways [01:10.60] [01:12.63]In the town I loved so well [01:16.85] [01:20.64]In the early morning the shirt factory horn [01:26.82] [01:28.60]Called women from reggae the moor and the bog [01:34.78] [01:36.65]While the men on the dole played a mother's role [01:42.47] [01:44.35]Fed the children and then walked the dog [01:48.76] [01:52.50]And when times got tough there was just about enough [01:58.51] [02:00.50]And they saw it through without complaining [02:04.75] [02:08.19]For deep inside was a burning pride [02:14.33] [02:16.27]In the town I loved so well [02:20.68] [02:24.26]There was music there in the deary air [02:30.15] [02:32.32]Like a language that we all could understand [02:38.49] [02:40.60]I remember the day that I earned my first pay [02:46.73] [02:48.54]When I played in a small pick up band [02:52.93] [02:56.64]There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth [03:03.18] [03:04.66]I was sad to leave it all behind me [03:09.56] [03:12.67]For I learned about life and I found a wife [03:19.15] [03:20.84]In the town I loved so well [03:25.12] [03:44.81]But when I returned how my eyes have burned [03:50.88] [03:53.24]To see how a town could be brought to it's knees [03:59.24] [04:01.14]By the armored cars and the bombed out bars [04:07.32] [04:09.27]And the gas that hangs on to every breeze [04:13.59] [04:17.11]Now the army's installed by that old gas yard wall [04:23.41] [04:25.26]And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher [04:29.64] [04:32.88]With their tanks and their guns oh my god what have they done [04:39.60] [04:41.18]To the town I loved so well [04:45.64] [04:49.41]Now the music's gone but they carry on [04:55.22] [04:57.20]For their spirits been bruised never broken [05:02.88] [05:05.30]They will not forget but their hearts are set [05:11.57] [05:13.46]On tomorrow and peace once again [05:17.84] [05:21.31]For what's done is done and what's won is won [05:27.53] [05:29.14]And what's lost is lost and gone for ever [05:33.90] [05:37.28]I can only pray for a bright brand new day [05:43.58] [05:45.35]In the town I love so well