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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.
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Changed key 04/04/07
capo 2nd fret

    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

    X: 73
T: Dirty Old Town
R: hornpipe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K:Dmaj
|:z2 A,2 B,2 D2|"D"F4 F4|F2 E>D F2 D2|A,4 A,4|
A,2 D2 F2 A2|"G"B4 B4|B2 A>F E2 D2|"D"F4 F4|
F2 A2 B2 A2|"D"F4 F4|F2 E>D F2 D2|A,4 A,4|
A,4 A,>B, DD B,2|"Bm"B,4 B,4:|