The town that I have loved so well
 Where THE school played ball by the gasyard wall
 And we laughed through the smoke and THE smell.
 Goin' home in the rain running up THAT dark lane
 Past the jail and down BEHIND the fountain
 THEY were happy days in so many many ways
 In the town I loved so well.

 In the early morn the shirt factory horn
 Called women from Creggan, the Moor and the Bog
 WOMEN ON THE DOLE  played a mothers role
 Fed the children and ----- walked the dog
 BUT when times got rough, 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 the Derry air
 Like a language ---- we --- all COULD understand
 I remember the day when I earned my first pay
 as I played in a small pickup band
 There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth
 I was sad to leave it all behind me
 For I?d learned about life and I?d found MYSELF A wife
 In the town I loved so well.

 But when I returned how my eyes HAVE burned
 To see how a LAND could be brought to it?s knees
 WITH THEIR armoured cars and the bombed out bars
 And the gas that hangs on to every breeze
 Now the army?s installed by that---- gasyard 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 THAT I loved so well.

 Now the music?s gone but they STILL carry on
 For their spirit?s been bruised, never broken
 THEY WILL not forget BUT their hearts are ALL set
 On tomorrow and peace once again
 Now what?s done is done and what?s won is won
 And what?s lost is lost and gone forever
 I can only pray for a ----- brand new day
 In the town I loved so well