Chords for The Town I Loved So Well

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_ In [C] my _ _ _ [G]
memory I will always [C]
see a _ town [C] _
that I _ have loved [G] so well
_ [C] Where the school [G] played ball by the _ _ [C] Gossiard wall
_ And we laughed through the smoke and the smell _ _
_ _ [G] Going home in the rain, _ [C] running off the [Am] dark lane
_ [G] Past the jail, _ [A] _
down behind [G] the fountain _ _
_ Those [C] were _ _ [G] happy days in so many, [C] many ways
In [C] the town _ I loved [G] so well _ _
_ _ In the _ early [G] _
_ morning [C] the shed factory horn
_ Called the women _ [C] from cracking _ the moor [G] and the bog
_ [C] While the men on [G] the dole [F] played the _ _ mother's role
Fed the children [C] _ and then _ watched the dog _ _
_ And [G] when _ times got tough _ [C] there was just about [A]
enough
_ [G] But they stopped _ [D] _
_ _ _ [G] _ complaining _ _
_ _ [C] The deep [G] end sight [C] was _ burning _ bright
In the town _ I _ loved so well _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] There was music [G] _
there [F] in the dairy _ [C]
air
_ [F] Like a language _ [C] that we _ could _ all [G] understand
_ _ [C] I remember _ [G] the day _ [F] when I earned [C] my first pay
And I played in a small [G] pick-up band _ _ _
_ There [F] I _ spent [G] my youth and [C] to tell you [Am] the truth
_ [F] I was sad to [Dm] _
leave it [G] all behind me _
_ For [C] I learned [G] about life _ [F] and I found me [C] a wife
_ [F] In the town _ [C] I _ loved so _ well
[F] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ But [C] when I _ _ [G]
returned how [F] my eyes [C] had burned
To [F] see how [C] a town could be brought to [G] its knees
With [C] the _ armored [G]
cars and [F] the bombed-out [C]
bars
And [F] the gas that [C] hangs on [G] to every [C] _ breeze _ _
Now [F] the _ army's [G]
installed by [C] that old gas [Am]-guard wall
That [F] _ down _ [Dm] _
there gets higher [G] and higher _ _
With _ [C] their tanks and [G] their guns
Oh [F] my God, what have they [C] done
_ _ [F] To the town _ [C] I [G] loved [C] so _ well
[F] _
_ _ [C] Now _ _ music's gone but they carry _
[G] _ on
For their _ spirit's [E] been bruised, _ [A] never _ _ _ [Dm] broken
_ They will not _
_ [F#] forget [N] but their hearts are [E] set
On tomorrow _ _
[F] and peace _ once again
_ _ _ For what's done _ [G] is done
And [C] what's [Bm] won [Am] is won
And [F] what's _ lost [Dm] is lost and gone [G] forever _
_ _ _ I [C] can _ only [G] pray for a [F] bright brand new [C] day
_ [F] In the town _ [C] I [G] loved [C] so _ well
_ _ For [F] what's done [G] is done
And [C] what's [Bm] won [Am] is won
And [F] what's lost [Dm] is lost and gone [G] forever _
_ _ I [C] can _ only [G] pray for a [F] bright brand new [C] day
_ [F] In the town _ [C] I [G] loved _ so well
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