The Town I loved So Well- by Phil Coltery

I am of Northern Irish descent and grew up on Long Island in a house where Irish music played all day on Sundays. This song is about someone's childhood home turning into a war zone and how that competes with his beloved memories from youth. I lived downtown on 9/11/01 and I remember walking down Broadway in the days that followed and seeing tanks patrolling my streets. A line from this song suddenly popped into my head;
"With their tanks and their guns,
My God, what have they done?
To the town I loved so well."

Ellen Bailey