@MrStruth WHY DID ENGLAND INVADE IRELAND ?IRELAND DIDNT INVADE ENGLAND,WHY DID'NT ENGLAND JUST GET OUT OF IRELAND?WHY DID IT START MOVING ENGLISH PEOPLE INTO IRELAND WHILE OCCUPYING IRELAND?WE KNOW WHY,THERE IS NO ESCAPING ITAND THANKS TO THIS GREAT SONG AND TALENTED SINGERS LIKE LUKE KELLY THE WORLD WILL NEVER FORGET,JUST LIKE THE SONG SAYS.
as a proud scot. let me take his chance to say sorry for what we did to your proud country. for the lives that has been lost on both sides. we should be so ashamed.
believe me little person :P it is very nice for me now in the north bit of ireland lol as we have very close to total control :) lol , ofc all thanks to sinn fein and the i.r.a freedom fighters lololol :)
omg :( i love your choice of word`s :( not . oh and what`s a pikey ? aint that a fish lolol :P i been called many thing`s :) but never a fish lol , oh and BTW i`m not that stinky lol :P i do shower from time to time :) so i`m quite clean tbh :) but let`s not get away from the great i.r.a freedom fighter`s achievement`s :P lol , i bet you and your people will not ever forget them :P .
I can guarantee you Phil would not be best pleased with this cover. He has always maintained his distance from the hard-line Republican music scene(!) if you want to hear Phil play this at his best, then come check out my page. Sat in the conservatory of his Bray (Co. Wicklow) home and footage of him wandering round Derry with his son. Regards GC88
Alan is a legend - I have listened to him all over the world - he is the BEST live performer there is alive. From McCormacks in Glasgow on a Sunday afternoon to Fraziers in Dublin across to Spain and as far as the USA. Don't judge him on this song - HE IS A LEGEND - a true son of Ireland......... Your friend forever Alan - Tommy from Baile Atha Cliath
I can't believe they changed the words... It's one thing to slaughter the song (Shebeen should stick to Disband the RUC et al) BUT to change the lyrics to give it a more Republican slant is just a disgrace to the man and his brilliant composition...
ok thank you :P well that or these people should wind their neck`s in :P lol like i said im a pure bred Romany gypsy :P on all sides lol . but ofc i was born and bred in ireland :P that makes me an Irish gypo ? :) aww well :P some silly little people never learn :)
Pikey is a pejorative slang term used to refer to people who are of the Traveller Community. Among English Romani Gypsies the term pikey refers to a Traveler that is not Romani.
In my memory I will always see The town that I have loved so well Where our school played ball by the old 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 the 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 is a burning pride For the town I loved so well There was music there in the Free Derry air Like a language that we could all understand I remember the day when I earned my first pay As we played in that old Republican band There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth I was sad to leave it all behind me For I'd learned 'bout life and I've found myself a wife Back in the town I loved so well But when I returned how my eyes they burned Just to see how this town could be brought to its knees By these armoured cars and the bombed-out bars And the gas that hangs on to every breeze Now the army it’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 we still carry on For their spirit's been bruised never broken We’ll not forget - still their hearts, they 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
I've been visiting Donegal for over 40 years and know every word of this classic. That aside, times have now changed for the better.....but I am still reminded of my roots which shaped my exterior (tough and honest). Long live the good man. ",Tomorrow and peace once again" is OUR goal!
