《The Town I Loved So Well》﹐是一首我非常喜歡的愛爾蘭名曲。作詞者 Phil Coulter 描述他從小到大於北愛爾蘭故鄉 Derry 的快樂回憶﹐只可惜 1972 年一月三十日﹐英國政府為了嚇阻北愛民權與民主自由主義人士的和平遊行﹐派駐軍隊進城鎮壓﹐造成十三人死亡多人受傷及被捕。一場血腥﹐永久地改變了安寧小鎮的一切。

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《The Town I Loved So Well》

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

影像﹕愛爾蘭男高音專輯﹐取自於 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000I7I1/103-6616011-6491067

自左起﹕ John McDermott, Anthony Kearns, Ronan Tynan
Conductor and Musical Director: Frank McNamara

這張專輯是三位男高音於都柏林皇家學會大廳 (Royal Dublin Society Main Hall) 演唱時現場錄製﹐收錄多首精彩的獨唱及合唱歌曲﹐鄭重推薦﹗