Chords for The Town I Loved So Well - The Dubliners & Ronnie Drew | Festival Folk (1985)

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_ [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] In _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] my _ _ [C] memory _ _ [Bb] I will _ _ [F] always see a _ [Bb] _
town [F] that _ _ I love _ so [C] well
Where [F] our school _ [C] played hop by [Bb] the gas [F] yard wall
_ [Bb] And we laughed _ [C] through the smoke and [F] the scandal
_ _ Going _ _ [Dm] _
home [C] in the rain, [F] running up the [Dm] dark lane
_ [Bb] Past the jail _ and down behind [C] the fountain
_ Those _ _ _ [F]
were _ happy [C] days [Bb] in so many, many [F] ways
And the [Bb] town I [C] love [F] so
_ _ In _ _ _ the _ early [C] _ morning [Bb] the shard factory [F] horn _
[Bb] Called the women [F] from Pranger, _ the moor [C] and the bog _
[F] While their men [C] on the dole _ [Bb] played a _ _ [F] mother's role _
[Bb] Fed the children [C] and then trained [F] the dog
_ _ _ _ _ [C]
[Dm] And when _ times [C] got rough _ [F] there was just [C] about [Dm] enough _
[Bb] But we saw _ it through with her
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] For deep _ _ [C] inside _ [Bb] was a burning [F] _ pride
In the [Bb] town _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
there was _ music [C] there _ in [Bb] the deadly _ [F] air
[Bb] Like a language [F] that we all could _ _ [C] understand _
I [F] remember [C] the day _ [Bb] that I earned my [F] first pay _
[Bb] When I played _ [C] in a small pickup [F] bar _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] There I spent _ [C] my youth and [F] to tell [Am] you [Dm] the truth _
[Bb] I was sad _ to leave it [Gm] all [C] behind me _ _ _ _
[F] For I'd learned _ [C] about a life and [Bb] I found a [F] wife
In [Bb] the town _ [C] I love _ [F] so _ _ _ _ _ _
But _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
when I _ _ [C] returned _ [Bb] how my eyes [F] have burned _
[Bb] To see _ [F] how a town _ could be brought to [C] its knees _
[F] Winter hours, _ [C] cars _ [Bb] and the bummed out [F] _ _
barns
[Bb] And the gas that [C] hangs on to every [F] _ breeze
Now _ _ [Dm] the _ army's [C] installed _ [F] by an old [C] gas [Dm] yard wall _
[Bb] And the damp _ barbed wire gets higher [C] and higher
With _ _ _
[F] their tanks [C] and their guns
[Bb] Oh my God what have [F] they done [Bb] to the town _ [C] I love [F] so well _ _ _ _
Now the _ [C] music's gone _ [Bb] but they can't _ [F] rearm _
[Bb] For their spirits [F] beat bruised _ never _ _ [C] broken
They [F] will not _ _ [C] forget for [Bb] their hearts _ [F] are set
[Bb] On tomorrow and [C] peace once [F] again
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] Well what's done _ [C] is done [F] and what's won [C] [Dm] is won
_ [Bb] And what's lost _ is lost and gone [C]
forever
_ I _ _ [F] can _ only [C] pray _ [Bb] for a bright brand [F] new day
In the [Bb] town _ [C] I love so
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