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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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Dirty Old Town
by Ewan MacColl
I met my love by the gasworks cry.
Dreamed a dream by the old canal.
Kissed my girl by the fact’ry wall.
Dirty old town, dirty old 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 dream by the old canal.
Kissed my girl by the fact’ry wall.
Dirty old town, dirty old 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