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Ewan MacColl, British playwright and songwriter of socialist orientation, wrote DIRTY OLD TOWN in 1949, to fill a scene change in Landscape with Chimneys, a play set in a non-identified industrial town of the North of England.
- from songlexikon.de
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Changed key 04/04/07
capo 2nd fret
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Dirty Old Town
by Ewan MacColl
I met my [D] love by the gasworks cry.
Dreamed a [G] dream by the old [D] canal.
Kissed my girl by the fact’ry wall.
Dirty old [A] town, dirty old [Bm] town.
Clouds are drifting across the moon
Cat’s are prowling on their beat
Springs a girl from the streets at night
Dirty old town, dirty old town.
I heard a siren from the docks
Saw a train set the night on fire
Smelled the spring on the smoky wind
Dirty old town, dirty old town.
I’m going to make a good sharp axe
Shining steel, tempered in the fire
I’ll chop you down like an old dead tree
Dirty old town, dirty old town.
Repeat First Verse
Dreamed a [G] dream by the old [D] canal.
Kissed my girl by the fact’ry wall.
Dirty old [A] town, dirty old [Bm] town.
Clouds are drifting across the moon
Cat’s are prowling on their beat
Springs a girl from the streets at night
Dirty old town, dirty old town.
I heard a siren from the docks
Saw a train set the night on fire
Smelled the spring on the smoky wind
Dirty old town, dirty old town.
I’m going to make a good sharp axe
Shining steel, tempered in the fire
I’ll chop you down like an old dead tree
Dirty old town, dirty old town.
Repeat First Verse
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