The Town I Loved So Well - Johnny McEvoy [with Lyrics]

Johnny McEvoy, Ireland's best-loved singer-songwriter, has been performing now for over four decades. This special anthology features many of his most popular ballads and chart-topping hits, which were recorded at the height of his outstanding career. 🎧 Listen on your favourite streaming service: https://lnk.to/zIBopB8A 👍 Follow Us 🔺 YouTube:    / dolphinmusicgroup   🔺 Facebook:   / dolphinmusicgroup   🔺 Instagram:   / dolphinmusicgroup   The Town I Loved So Well - as sung by Johnny McEvoy In my memory I will always see The town that I have loved so well Where our school played ball by the gas yard wall And we laughed through the smoke and the smell Going home in the rain running up the dark lane Past the jail and down behind the fountain Those were happy days in so many, many ways In the town I loved so well In the early morning the shirt factory horn Calls women from Creggan the moor and the bog While their men on the dole played a mother's role Fed the children and then walked the dogs And when times got rough there was just about enough But they saw it through without complaining For deep inside was a burning pride For the town I love so well There was music there in the Derry air Like a language that we all could understand I remember the day I earned my first pay As I drove in that small pick-up van There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth I was sad to leave it all behind me For I learned about life and I found me a wife In the town I loved so well But when I returned how my eyes were burned To see how a city could be brought to its knees By the armoured cars and the bombed out bars And the gas that hangs on to every breeze Now the army's installed by that old gas yard wall And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher With their tanks and guns oh my God what have they done To the town I love so well Now the music's gone but they carry on For their spirits been bruised never broken Though they'll not forget still their hearts are set On tomorrow and peace once again For 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 bright brand new day For the town I love so well For the town I love so well ℗ & © Dolphin Traders Ltd.