The Town I Loved So Well Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D][Bm][A]

[Verse 1]
[A]In my [D]memory
[A]I will a[G]lways s[D]ee
The [G]town that [D]I have loved so w[A]ell
Where our [D]school played [A]ball
by the [G]gas -smothered [D]wall
And we [G]laughed through the
[D]smoke [A]an d the [D]smell
Go[F#m]ing ho[D]me in the ra[A]in,
running [D]up the dark [Bm]lane
Past the [G]quay and [Em]on
behind the [A]fountain
Those were [D]happy [A]days in so [G]many,
many [D]ways
In [G]the town I [D]loved [A]so [D]well
In the early morn[A]ing,
the [G]chute factory [D]horn
Called the [G]women from [D]Creggan,
the moor and the [A]bog.
While the [D]men on the [A]dole
lay the [G]mother's [D]role,
Fed the [G]children and [D]then
[A]trained the [D]doves.
An[A]d when t[D]imes got t[A]ough,
there was [D]just about enough
[Bm]But they saw m[G]e through
[Em]without com[A]plaining
For [D]deep in[A]side was a [G]burning [D]pride
In [G]the time I [D]loved [A]so [D]well[G][D]
[A]There was [D]music [A]there in the [G]derriere
[D]Like a lan[G]guage that we[D]
all could understand
[A]I rem[D]ember the d[A]ay that
I [G]earned my first [D]pay
When I [G]played with a [D]small [A]pick -up [D]band
[A]There I [D]spent my [A]youth and to [D]tell the [Bm]truth
I was [G]sad to [Em]leave it all be[A]hind [Bm]me
[A]For I lea[D]rned about lif[A]e and becam[G]e a wif[D]e
In [G]the town I [D]loved [A]so [D]well
But when I returned,
[A]how my eye[G]s have bur[D]ned
To [G]see how a [D]town
could be brought to its [A]knees,
by the [D]armored [A]cars
and the [G]bombed -out [D]bars,
and the [G]gas that hangs
[D]on to [A]every [D]breeze.
[A]Now the [D]army's in[A]stalled
by the [D]old gas yard [Bm]wall
And the [G]damned barbed [Em]wire
gets higher and [A]higher
With their [D]tanks and their [A]guns,
oh my [G]God, what have they [D]done
To [G]the town I [D]loved [A]so [D]well
Now the music's [A]gone,
but they [G]still carry [D]on
For their [G]spirit's been [D]bruised,
never broken
[A]They will [D]not forget,
[A]for their hea[G]rts are set[D]
For to[G]morrow and [D]peace [A]once [D]again
[A]For [D]what's done is [A]done,
and what's [D]won [A]is [Bm]won,
and what's [G]lost is [Em]lost
and gone forever[A].[Bm]
[A]I can onl[D]y pra[A]y for a
[G]brand bright new [D]day
In the [G]town I [D]loved [A]so well.
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