The town I loved so well...
Den här låten har spelats hemma hos oss hela mitt liv...
först nu förstår jag vad dom sjunger...den är en av dom låtar
i mitt liv som berört mig mest.
Vi har even hört The Dubliners på konserd i Oslo!
En uppleving jag aldrig kommer glömma.....
The Town I Loved So Well" is a song written by Phil Coulter about his
childhood in Derry Northern Ireland
The first three verses are about the simple lifestyle
he grew up with in Derry, while the final two deal with THE TROUBLES
and lament how his placid hometown had
become a major military outpost, plagued with sectarian violence.
In my memory I will always see
the town that I have loved so well
Where our school played ball by the gasyard 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
called women from Creggan, the Moor and the Bog
While the men on the dole played a mother's role,
fed the children and then trained the dogs
And when times got tough there was just about enough
But they saw it through without complaining
For deep inside was a burning pride
in the town I loved so well
There was music there in the Derry air
like a language that we all could understand
I remember the day when I earned my first pay
And I played in a small pick-up band
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'd found a wife
in the town I loved so well
But when I returned how my eyes have burned
to see how a town could be brought to its knees
By the armoured cars and the bombed out bars
and the gas that hangs on to every tree
Now the army's installed by that old 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 I loved so well
Now the music's gone but they carry on
For their spirit's been bruised, never broken
They will not forget but 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
in the town I loved so well
Phill Coulter.
Läs mera om "The troubles":
http://www.answers.com/topic/the-troubles
Lyssna til The Dubliners:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2GlweCUixao
Londonderry Northern Ireland